New approaches for the establishment of community seed banks in Biosphere Reserve Sierra del Rosario
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Seed community banks (CSB) are one of the strategies established to preserve such resources, essential to guarantee food sustainability because it provides a wide genetic diversity to face up to problems like climatic change and pests action. CSB are places when seed of important cultivars was stored from harvest to harvest by using traditional methods, with this, small farmers ensures the access to seed in good conditions. The next work establishes new proceedings for the creation and use of community seed banks in the Biosphere Reserve Sierra del Rosario (BRSR). We analyze limitations of previous experiences and design a guide for obtain information from small farmers, then two open ateliers where developed. With these, 12 CSD where established in five different communities of BRSR. The new approaches expect to decentralize the bank, increase its number and made them familiar then, each family can preserve a little number of cultivars with minim responsibilities and duties. Such simplification implies the strengthening the seed’s exchanges networks between farmers as an effective mechanism to achieve bidirectional flow of resources. Then, the collective character of CSB and the equal contribution of each voluntary member are guarantee.
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