The Farmer’s Pride final conference is an opportunity to:
- share knowledge and perspectives
- promote the in situ conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources in legislative and governance frameworks
- scale up progress in Europe and other regions with a view to creating a global initiative to safeguard diversity for food and agriculture in the future.
Please note that the Conference could be postponed depending on Coronavirus pandemic trend.
The Farmer’s Pride project achievements at 2020
In situ landrace propagation management and access guidelines
This document provides the user community with clear prescriptions to carry out or develop proper multiplication and diffusion strategies with the principal aim of maximising within landrace diversity while keeping its identity. Cases where introduction of landraces into a completely new environment is needed are also considered. The elements used to build these recommendations were also retrieved through an accurate literature review.
In situ landraces: best practice evidence-base database
This database provides a wealth of information on the benefits, opportunities and methods of landrace cultivation.
In situ plant genetic resources in Europe: landraces
This document reports about extensive data (19,335 records) that have been collected on landrace populations maintained in situ, involving collaborators in the Farmer’s Pride project and members of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources.
Landrace hotspots identification in Europe
In this document we identify 100 diversity hotspots to be included in a future European network for in situ conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources based on the available data relative to 19,335 landrace in situ records from 14 different European countries.
Landrace network design
In this document we report the result of the interaction with Farmer’s Pride Partners and Ambassadors about the identification of activities/sites of landrace cultivation in Europe most relevant for setting the European network for in situ conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources with some recommendations on the implementation process.
By examining different types of networks two different sets of criteria are proposed to evaluate the ability of a network in i) securing national and regional LR diversity and ii) facilitating access to landrace material by different users (e.g.farmers, farmers’associations, gardeners, gardeners’associations, seed savers, researchers, NGOs, plant breeders and seed companies).
This document reports the results of the stakeholder analysis carried out in 2018. All countries in the target area (geographic Europe, the EU member states, Turkey, the Russian Federation, and the Caucasus) were represented, and critically, representatives of all the anticipated main broadly defined stakeholder groups responded to the survey, including independent farmers, protected area managers, seed companies and policymakers. Respondents have interests in all aspects of in situ conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources—from national policy development, through capacity building, improving access to material, direct utilization for own consumption or commerce, to research into stress resistance traits, new markets for neglected crops, diversification of grain-based products, and general resilience of humans and the environment. They also work with all types of plant genetic resources, including landraces, crop wild relatives and other wild species, conservation, amateur and obsolete varieties, forage and cereal mixtures, and a range of other types of populations.