From Lessons to Practice and Impact: Scaling up pathways in peoples’ biodiversity management

The document outlines a framework of six interconnected pathways—participatory toolkits, Farmer Field Schools, resource access, policy influencing, climate change response, and gender inclusion—designed to scale up the capacity of smallholder farmers and indigenous peoples to manage biodiversity for food security. It highlights the importance of farmer-managed seed systems and provides policy recommendations to enhance the rights and decision-making capacity of these groups.

• The programme developed a framework of six interconnected pathways to scale up biodiversity management: a Participatory Toolkit for measuring progress, a simple and adaptable Farmer Field School curriculum, facilitated access to plant genetic resources, collective policy analysis and advocacy, a cross-cutting climate change response, and gender inclusion to ensure equitable division of labour and access to resources.
• Lack of access to a diverse portfolio of crops and varieties is identified as a major obstacle to the effective operation of farmer-managed seed systems.
• In Zimbabwe, a multi-stakeholder workshop led to the creation of the Seed Security Network Dialogue Initiative, which is tasked with reviewing national seed policy and current seed laws using an integrated seed system approach.
• The briefing proposes eleven policy recommendations, including the need for Intellectual Property Rights holders of short-duration crop strains to provide these varieties to smallholder producers for breeding purposes free of charge.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (2015). From Lessons to Practice and Impact: Scaling up pathways in peoples’ biodiversity management. https://cdkn.org/resource/from-lessons-to-practice-and-impact-scaling-up-pathways-in-peoples-biodiversity-management

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. From Lessons to Practice and Impact: Scaling up pathways in peoples’ biodiversity management. 2015. https://cdkn.org/resource/from-lessons-to-practice-and-impact-scaling-up-pathways-in-peoples-biodiversity-management.

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BibTeX

@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetwork2015from, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{From Lessons to Practice and Impact: Scaling up pathways in peoples’ biodiversity management}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2015}, month = oct, url = {https://cdkn.org/resource/from-lessons-to-practice-and-impact-scaling-up-pathways-in-peoples-biodiversity-management}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }