Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Preserving biodiversity: Seed saving and Seed banks

Who preserves and controls crop biodiversity?  
How and why do they do it? 

* Agriculture, biodiversity and markets : livelihoods and agroecology in comparative perspective


* Agrobiodiversity hotspots : access and benefit sharing

* Banishing the biopirates : a new approach to protecting traditional knowledge


* Biopiracy of biodiversity : global exchange as enclosure

* Confronting biopiracy : Challenges, cases and international debates 

* Conserving plant genetic diversity in protected areas : population management of crop wild relatives


* Economics of managing crop diversity on-farm : Case studies from the Genetic Resources Policy Initiative


* Future control of food : a guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectual property, biodiversity and food security

* Garden seed inventory : an inventory of seed catalogs listing all non-hybrid vegetable seeds available in the United States and Canada

* Gardening with heirloom seeds : tried-and-true flowers, fruits, and vegetables for a new generation



* Genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the law : solutions for access and benefit sharing

* Governing agrobiodiversity : plant genetics and developing countries

* Heirloom tomato : from garden to table : recipes, portraits, and history of the world’s most beautiful fruit

* Heirloom vegetable gardening : a master gardener’s guide to planting, growing, seed saving, and cultural history

* Orchard invisible : a natural history of seeds

* Patenting lives : life patents, culture and development

* Plant conservation genetics

* Saving seeds : the economics of conserving crop genetic resources ex situ in the future harvest centres of the CGIAR

* Seed conservation : turning science into practice

* Seed diversity in the drylands : women and farming in South India

* Seed hunter [film]

* Seed to seed : seed saving and growing techniques for vegetable gardeners

* Seed trade in rural markets : implications for crop diversity and agricultural development

* Seeds, sex and civilization : how the hidden life of plants has shaped our world

* Sowing autonomy : gender and seed politics in semi-arid India



* Viking in the wheat field : a scientist’s struggle to preserve the world’s harvest





Thursday, April 9, 2009

"Grow your soup": Donate seeds with a click!


When you visit HelpGrowYourSoup.com and click on "GROW," Campbell Soup Co. will donate 50 seeds to Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapters across the country.

Plus, each can of condensed soup has a code that you can enter on the site to receive a free packet of tomato seeds to grow at home. The campaign lasts through June 21 and you can click every day!

Community Projects

Along with a group called Urban Farming, Campbell is partnering with FFA chapters to plant community gardens in New York, NY (April 16); Atlanta, GA (April 21); Camden, NJ (May 2); Chicago, IL (May 12) and Detroit, MI (May 20).

Campbell is also working with FFA to help restore five barns in Clackamas, OR; Cherryvale, KS; Reddick, IL; Nashville, TN and Corfu, NY.