Country: Vietnam
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Women, seeds and nutrition
technical report of the baseline surveyPhase 1 of the “Sowing diversity = Harvesting Security” (SD=HS) Programme, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Dutch National Postcode Lottery (NPL), was implemented between 2014 and 2018. Its objectives were to uphold, strengthen and mainstream the rights and technical capacities of indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers, and to influence […]
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A summary of the impact of national seed legislation on the functioning of small-scale farmers’ seed systems in Peru, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. Policy paper
National seed laws are important for the functioning of farmers’ seeds systems. This study was conducted under the IFAD-Oxfam program: “Putting Lessons into Practice: Scaling up Peoples Biodiversity Management for Food Security.
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Knowledge, views, experiences and best practices on the implementation of farmers’ rights. Policy brief
This paper has been submitted to the 6th Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA), as a joint submission by Oxfam, the Netherlands; Asociación ANDES, Peru; CTDT, Zimbabwe; SEARICE, Vietnam and CGN-WUR, the Netherlands. It has been published on the website of the International Treaty. […]
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Farmer-bred varieties: Finding their place in the seed supply system of Vietnam. The case of HD1 variety.
This study presents viable options for farmer-bred varieties to have the opportunity to be integrated in Vietnam’s seed supply system. It aims to: – Document Vietnam’s policy environment on variety and seed certification system. – Trace the processes which the HD1 variety went through, to become the first farmer-bred variety to pass national seed certification. […]