Category: <span>report</span>

Category: report

publication / report

State of human and institutional capacities

It is with great pleasure that I have contributed to The Third Report on The State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture as lead author of Chapter 5 on The state of human and institutional capacities (pp: 181-254), written with the lovely help of the cool women Ana Bedmar and Barbara Pick with contributions from Khaled Abulaila, Shakeel Ahmad, Sylvain Aubry, Martin Brink, Marc de Wit, Elizabeth Fernández, Euriel Godebert, Aluana Gonçalves de Abreu, … …

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Funding agroecology: huge potential remains untapped

The need for radical transformation of food and agriculture systems has been thoroughly documented, widely accepted and embraced rhetorically by organisations at all scales, but its potential remains untapped: the political will to actually funding agroecology is missing. In March 2018, together with Michel Pimbert, I wrote: “…Our recently published research shows that very little overseas aid is directed at agroecological research and development. Since January 1 2010, no funds at all have been directed at or been … …

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report

Open Source Seed Networking

This is a report about open source seed that I co-authored with JM Pedersen, and which was commissioned by Hivos. It features a preface by Carol Gribnau, Director of the Green Society Program @ Hivos. The emerging network of open source seed projects is a significant contribution to biodiversity, climate chaos adaptation, and a healthy, satisfying dinner table. About a decade old, the translation of the Free Software principles and the Open Source methods into seeds, as in … …

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