RAP Publication 2002/08
Food and Agriculture Organization
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand
M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
Chennai, India
Contributors
R. Rengalakshmi (coordinator), G. Alagukannan, N. Anil Kumar, V. Arivudai Nambi, V. Balakrishnan, K. Balasubramanian, Bibhu Prasad Mohanty, D. Dhanapal, M. Geetha Rani, G. Girigan, Hemal Kanvinde, Israel Oliver King, Prathiba Joy, T. Ravishankar, Saujanendra Swain, Sushanta Chaudhry, P. Thamizoli, Trilochan Ray and L. Vedavalli
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ISBN: 971-614-019-3
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Objectives
Women - producers, providers and managers
Approaches
Study area: land and people
Gender issues and concerns in local agrobiodiversity
Gender division of labour in farming systems
Gender differential preferences in crop selection
Access and control over resources
Approaches used in enhancing local agrobiodiversity
The economic stake in conservation
Industrial links, e.g. niche marketing
Ensuring the value of agrobiodiversity
Community gene bank and community herbarium
Appropriating value to genetic resources
Promotion of on-farm conservation
Seed exchange and community seed bank
Coping mechanisms/techniques used to restore plant or varietal losses during agricultural disasters, civil war, etc
Institutional partnerships
Relevant policies advocated
Recommendations for country action to promote women’s role in local agrobiodiversity
Annex 1: Available rice genetic resources/germplasm in the Jeypore tract
Annex 2. Inter-specific diversity in minor millets
Annex 3. List of traditional varieties of rice known in Wayanad
Annex 4. Gender roles in little millet cultivation in the Kolli hills
Annex 5. Medicinal uses of njavara