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From base broadening to enhancing crop adaptation to climate change: a preparatory study for the farmer evaluation activity in the project 'Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives

Grant No

From base broadening to enhancing crop adaptation to climate change

Project Description

The thInstitut de recherche pour le developpement (Institut de recherche pour le developpement (IRD)) phase in the project 'Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives' will deploy the pre-bred material to farmers and breeders on the 'front-lines' of the global struggle to adapt agriculture to climate change. This is a proposal Noragric at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) to undertake a preparatory study on approaches to participatory plant breeding (PPB) and evaluation. The objective of this preparatory study is to map the participatory plant breeding and evaluation project landscape with the aim to identify best practices in terms of scientific merit, development impacts and contribution towards the realization of Farmers Rights and Sustainable Use. The project team consists of experts form NMBU and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) that together will be able to analyze technical, social, and international law and policy aspects of such approaches and projects. The planned outputs from this project will include two reports of instrumental value for the evaluation phase and one peer reviewed journal article on the role of participatory evaluation for crop adaption to climate change. Based on criteria developed in the review and expert consultation process the project team will come up with suggestions for potential project partners that can undertake the farmer evaluation.

Institute Name

Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway (NMBU)

Institute Country

Norway

List of Countries

Norway

Program Name

Crop Wild Relatives

Donor

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)

Start Date

15th of January 2017

End Date

31st of December 2017

Status

Completed