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Supporting the poor and indigenous communities starting with their own seeds From PVS/PPB to Farmer Seed Network in China By Yiching Song Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Science

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Supporting the poor and indigenous communities starting with their own seeds

From PVS/PPB to Farmer Seed Network in China

By

Yiching Song

Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy,

Chinese Academy of Science

Linking two systems through PPB for crop Improvement, biodiversity enhancement and farmer empowerment

farmers’ seed system

farmers farmers

farmers farmers

farmers farmers

breeders

seed company

extension

farmers farmers farmers

formal seed system

PPBfarmers farmers

PPB in Guangxi started in

Guangxi, since 2000 ……

PPB working with farmers for their own Seeds, drought

and pest resistance, quality, and continue seeds…..

• Since 2000 in Guangxi, then to

Yunnan, Guizhou ….

• Conserved more than 1000 farmer

preferred landraces (maize, rice, etc)

• Bred out 12 PPB varieties inc 1 hybrid

• yield increased 15-30%, quality seed

and food for income increased 3 times

Farmer Seed Network spring of 2014, linking, for

scaling out & up, empowerment, supporting,

2014 11 15

“ ” 2013

12

!1

MCI

SEED LAW PROPOSAL

VOL.1

2014’

WORKSHOP

• linking farmer to farmers, 26 communities

from 7 provinces, SW, East, North and

Central China, maize, rice, potato, soybean,

vegetables…

• Linking farmers with scientists, CAAS, GMRI,

IKB….

• Linking farmers with policy making process,

seed law revision…

• Suggestion accepted for protecting farmers’

right in New Seed Law!!!!

Working for more drought and pest resistance seeds, farmers own

Seeds, own seed networks for exchange, sharing, diversified

food and livelihoods to continue……

2013: Started PPB with support from PPB

farmers from GX and GMRI

In 2015:

PVS: 38 maize, 32 soybean, conserved

-PPB: 8 maize improved 15 yield,

-30% income, drought resistance, quality,

culture….

-Seed Production: 2 PPB Vs, …income

From seed and crop

and seed distributed via SFN etc

四:最终的出路和应对参与式行动,多学科多层面合作联合:

e.g.全国农民种子网络 Farmer Seed Network (China)

全国CSA网络, PGS网络, 全国合作社平台。

西南种子网络,广西种子网络。。

Community Seed Bank Established, & link to public gene

banks in ICS, KIB for conservation and utilzation…….

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石头城农民传统文化和种子交易会

Farmers TK System

农民系统

poor and remote area

OPVs and landraces,

seed selection and maintenance

Farmer to farmer seed exchange

better off green revolution area

several high yielding hybrids

hybrid breeding,

top-down formal seed system

Technology transfer,

Formal System

Farmers farmers

Farmers farmers

Farmers farmers

Farmers farmers

Breeders

Seed Company

Extension

farmers farmers

farmers

Stone Village in Yunnan, SW China

•Naxi people’s early settlement and spiritual homeland, over 1500 years

•Home of 220 Naxi families from 6 natural villages

•sitting on a rocky mountain overlooking Yangtze river

• With a history of 1400 years of terrace farming,

with a old water irregation system…

•a biodiversity hotspot, with over 20 local staple food crops

and about 180 native varieties

Why it could survive all the nature

& human changes and disasters? …

Supporting the poor, by recognizing and supporting their seeds!!!

• Farmer-Farmer exchange and

networking

• Farmer- scientists Exchanges

and mutual support!

• Collaboration, South to South,

South to North

Networking and Collaboration are crucial for resilience

and adaptation for all the Challenges and Changes…

• Working with thousands

such living labs like stone

village for adaptation,

resilience, continue and

survival…..