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Country Seminars
In
recent years there have been international efforts to
identify more sustainable pathways for supporting on-farm
conservation of agricultural biodiversity. This two
year project was developed by a group of individuals
involved in agricultural biodiversity conservation and
use in Eastern and Southern Africa for the explicit
purpose of assessing the potential for scaling-up different
kinds of grass-roots level support for on-farm conservation
of agricultural biodiversity in Eastern and Southern
Africa.
The
intention has been to provide case study evidence on
what kinds of support are most effective and what are
the pre-conditions for their success, for grass-roots
development workers in CBOs and NGOs, national policy
makers, aid agency personnel, signatories to the Biodiversity
Convention and the international biodiversity community.
The project
consortium organised four one-day seminars, at which project
findings - based on participatory field work with six example
projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe - were presented
for discussion. Sessions included overviews of case study
project findings, implications for best practice in supporting
grass-roots on-farm conservation, implications for national
policy towards on-farm conservation, and identification of
desirable next steps for supporting grass-roots on-farm conservation.
The seminars were resourced by poster displays and published
materials, and participants were encouraged to bring along
posters and publications about their own project and conservation
activities for display, as well as to share their own experience
in the discussions.
The seminars
were open to senior staff working within government, the research
sector, industry, donor and NGO organisations, and projects
contributing to on-farm conservation of agricultural biodiversity.
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