Support farmers’ seed systems and innovation.

This is the sixth category of options to encourage, guide and promote the realization of Farmers’ Rights in the Options Document. It comprises options for the facilitation of farmers’ access to a diversity of PGRFA through community seed banks, seed networks and other measures improving farmers’ choices of a wider diversity of PGRFA.

Support and safeguard community biodiversity management and/or other practical activities of farmers and farming communities for in situ/on-farm management of PGRFA.

Strengthen the role and identity of custodian/guardian farmers and communities through social and cultural activities.

Conduct and disseminate studies on the participation of farmers and communities in in situ/on-farm conservation, management and sustainable use of PGRFA, including technological, ecological, socioeconomic and cultural aspects.

This is the fifth category of options to encourage, guide and promote the realization of Farmers’ Rights in the Options Document. It comprises options for in situ/on-farm conservation and management of PGRFA, such as social and cultural measures, community biodiversity management and conservation sites.

Recognize, collect and document traditional knowledge on PGRFA, including knowledge relating to cultivation and use.

Conduct and/or support activities for conserving, sharing and disseminating traditional knowledge relating to PGRFA.

Support farmers and farming communities to develop instruments to govern access to PGRFA over which they have established rights and traditional knowledge associated with PGRFA based on their local practices, procedures and community protocols.

This is the fourth category of options to encourage, guide and promote the realization of Farmers’ Rights in the Options Document. It comprises options for catalogues, registries and other forms of documentation of PGRFA and protection of traditional knowledge.

Conduct and/or support promotional activities to strengthen sustainable consumption for products derived from the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA.

Develop value-chains for local crops, varieties and evolutionary populations with specific adaptation, nutritional value, uses or other benefits.