The Instituto Socioambiental applied for the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The project title is: “Food security and sustainable development in Brazil, and, in particular, among the indigenous and traditional people of Xingu and Ribeira basins, by the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources” and will involve directly more than 160 smallholders.
I contributed to the proposal writing.
We suggest the following documents, in order to have a deeper understanding of the issues addressed in the project:
* FAO (2010). The Second Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Roma.
www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1500e/i1500e00.htm
* Mariante, A. d. S., M. J. A. Sampaio, et al., Eds. (2009). State of the Brazil’s plant genetic resources. Second national report. Brasília, Embrapa – Ministério da Agricultura.
www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1500e/Brazil.pdf
* FAO (2010). The State of Food Insecurity in the World. Addressing food insecurity in protracted crises. Roma.
www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/
* IBGE (2006). Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios. Segurança Alimentar 2004. Rio de Janeiro.