The baseline for it all should be education about the importance and value of biodiversity.
In order to do no harm it is important to avoid additional dependencies for farmers. Solutions will not come from foreign countries, they have to be found or generated on-site. If foreigners can play a facilitating role here, ok. This means: caution with subsidized fertilizers, their use has consequences, and organic locally available material is more important, and more awareness raising and knowledge is needed. For small farmers besides food security risk avoidance is most important, this means, improved seeds are often needed, but they must be produced in-country and, no hybrids please! Dependencies on scarce resources (like money) means poverty, means harm.
The baseline for it all should be education about the importance and value of biodiversity.
In order to do no harm it is important to avoid additional dependencies for farmers. Solutions will not come from foreign countries, they have to be found or generated on-site. If foreigners can play a facilitating role here, ok. This means: caution with subsidized fertilizers, their use has consequences, and organic locally available material is more important, and more awareness raising and knowledge is needed. For small farmers besides food security risk avoidance is most important, this means, improved seeds are often needed, but they must be produced in-country and, no hybrids please! Dependencies on scarce resources (like money) means poverty, means harm.
Reimund Kube, International Agriculturist