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  1. Soil conservationist management systems on small farms of Santa Catarina State, Brazil
    "Objectives: Minimize the erosion, the superficial runoff and the soil degradation, through the growth of soil cover crops and adoption of soil conservationist management systems with minimum or any soil plowing. To adapt and/or to develop, with technicians and farmers participation, soil…
  2. Latin America conservation agriculture network (RELACO)
    "The objective pursued [of RELACO] was to find the simplest and efficient way to communicate the most relevant knowledge, and experiences on conservation tillage to farmers, technicians, scientists, and decision makers in the countries of the region."
  3. The rice-wheat consortium for the Indo-Gangetic plains: an ecoregional partnership in South Asia
    "Objectives: The RWC was convened in response to growing concerns about the sustainability of rice-wheat systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plains. These systems are fundamental to food security, incomes and employment to hundreds of millions of rural and urban poor in South Asia. The objectives of…
  4. Declaración de Dresden sobre los recursos fitogenéticos para la alimentación y la agricultura
    "Los participantes del Foro Global de Investigación Agropecuaria, reunidos en Dresden, Alemania, en mayo de 2000, en representación de los sistemas nacionales de investigación agrícola; las organizaciones, universidades e institutos de investigación avanzada; las organizaciones no…
  5. Déclaration de Dresde sur les ressources phytogénétiques pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture
    "Les participants au Forum mondial de la recherche agricole qui se sont réunis à Dresde, Allemagne, en mai 2000 et représentent les systèmes nationaux de recherche agricole, les organisations régionales et sous-régionales, les universités, les institutions de recherche avancée, les…
  6. Dresden declaration on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
    "The participants at the Global Forum for Agricultural Research that met in Dresden, Germany, in May 2000, representing the national agricultural research systems, regional and sub-regional organizations, universities, advanced research institutions, non-governmental organizations, the private…
  7. GFAR initiative on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
    ¿The countries represented in the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture are presently re-negotiating the International Undertaking, in harmony with the CBD, that will most likely be binding, and that seeks to establish a multilateral system for facilitated access to, and…
  8. Germplasm flows between developing countries and the CGIAR: an initial assessment
    ¿The findings of this study [...] can be summarized as follows: 1. Developing countries have been and continue to be recipients of a large amount of germplasm samples from IARCs, receiving more in numbers of germplasm samples from IARC genebanks than they contributed. 2. Developing countries…
  9. The CGIAR and biotechnology: can the renewal keep the promise of a research agenda
    "Since the launching of the renewal, the CGIAR has emphasized a new research agenda aimed at promoting a sustainable agriculture for food security and poverty alleviation in the developing world (LDCs). In various declarations and published materials there is constant mentions of new…
  10. International Workshop on the Ecological Impacts of Transgenic Crops (March 2-4 ,2000). Executive summary
    "Besides the widely acknowledged drawbacks of GMCs: a) the spread of transgenes to related weeds or conspecifics via crop-weed hybridization and, b)the rapid evolution of resistance of insect pests such as Lepidoptera to Bt, the workshop was concerned about the overall ecological implications…
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