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Seed Conservation, Exchange and Propagation: A Genetic Conservation Project

The project is a community-based watershed protection and conservation of traditional rice varieties and vegetable crops covering ten communities. This effort to save and utilize TRVs and vegetable genetic resources among the farmers is geared towards crops improvement purposes and increasing production.

This project will promote the systematization of genetic resource conservation by farmers in the island which has long been restrained due to skills and fund inadequacy.

The main componnets of the projects shall be conservation and retrieval of seeds which includes network building for seed exchange and propagation, adoption of 40 traditional rice varieties, development of resource center for seed propagation and back-up seeds storage, and research, publications which includes distribution of modules/primers in popular form, and databanking on seed conservation.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Federation of Iloilo Farmers Association

Country:

Philippines

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

Phase 2

Grant Amount:

US$ 41,653.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 11,136.80

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 5,799.61

Project Number:

PHI/27/02 GEF-RNE

Start Date:

10/2002

End Date:

6/2006

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Direct partners are upland farmers and indigenous people's named Tumanduk.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Farming is the main source of their income.

Notable Community Participation

Ten communities in the provinces of Iloilo and Capiz will join together in the conservation of traditional rice varieties and vegetable crops. It is also noted that farmer's organizations campaign to expose the effects of chemical farming and package technology are being mobilized. Community assemblies were held to strengthen local organizations. The communities also form a network of farmers for the seed conservation, exchange, and propagation program.

Capacity - Building Component

The project will have a trainer's pool for genetic conservation concepts to 20 community-based farmers, technicians and 50 adoptors in the community level.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

This project is designed essentially to promote biodiversity and ecological farming practices as alternative to cost and chemical intensive farming in the rural communities. It s major environmental concerns are biodiversity, control of soil erosion, management of soil fertility. In the long run, the project will ensure that farmers dependability on chemical farming, high-yielding varieties and monocropping will be cut-off and organic farming, traditional rice varieties and biodiversity will be propagated.

Project Results

The project's output are as follows:

Develop a comprehensive community-based seed biodiversity conservation plan, which is accepted and institutionalized by the 10 communities.

Capacitated the local community organizations through CBFTs in transferring learned technologies on seed conservation and biodiversity ecological farming which were shown thru: the 80% of the farmer organization members in the 10 communities participated in the skills training on community-based seed biodiversity conservation; 20 community-based farmer technicians representing the 10 communities speaheaded ecological farming and traditional rice variety production in the communities; 50 adopters representing 10 communities planted at least 2 traditional rice varieties and 10 kinds of vegetables in its cropping season and formalized the network to work for the seed conservation, exchange and propagation, and 40 kinds of traditional rice varieties and 16 kinds of legumes, vegetables were retrieved, produced and used by the 10 communities.

This effort to save and utilize TRVs and vegetable genetic resources among the farmers is geared towards crop improvement purposes and increase production.

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