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Community-based Biodiversity Management South Asia Programme (CBM-SA)
Project Goal
Enhance livelihoods and wellbeing of farming communities of South Asia through increased food and nutrition security and climate change resilience achieved by means of conservation and sustainable management of the biological resources related to agriculture.
Objectives
To strengthen capacity of farming communities of South Asia to conserve, utilize and benefit from their genetic resources through appropriate technical, institutional and policy support
To increase productivity of biodiversity-based production systems of poor farmers for improved livelihoods and their resilience to climate change
Specific objectives
- To enable farming communities to document, conserve and utilize their genetic resources and associated knowledge in a sustainable manner;
- To strengthen capacity of farmers and farming communities, local institutions and other stakeholders for the conservation and sustainable utilisation of genetic resources;
- To establish institutional mechanisms to organize, protect farmers’ right and secure access and control over their genetic resources;
- To analyze implication of existing policies and laws for the conservation of genetic resources and promote supportive policy environment; and
- To promote exchange of knowledge, experiences and genetic resources among organisations and farming communities of South Asia.
Outputs
The project envisages the producing following outputs during its implementation:
- To enable farming communities document, conserve and utilize their genetic resources and associated knowledge in a sustainable manner;
- To strengthen capacity of farmers and farming communities, local institutions and other stakeholders for the conservation and sustainable utilisation of genetic resources;
- To strengthen institutional mechanisms to organize, protect farmers’ right and secure access and control over their genetic resources;
- To analyse implication of existing policies and laws for the conservation of genetic resources and promote supportive policy environment promoted; and
- Exchange of knowledge, experiences and genetic resources among organisations and farming communities of South Asia.
GREEN Foundation- Nodal Head for India
Functions
Networking and Management by Green Foundation with the following representatives:
Partner scoping
National annual review and planning
Annual joint monitoring and evaluation
Partner selection and developing working mechanisms
Identifying interventions and developing proposal
Roles of partner organisations
Coordinating organization: Green Foundation Coordination roles:
- Review and planning
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Reporting
- Documentation, synthesizing regional experiences, publication and sharing
- Facilitating learning across partner organisation
- Organizing identifying and making available resource persons
- Organize capacity building activities
- Funding management, including funding to partners
CBM – SA Partners :
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 GREEN Foundation, Bangalore, www.greenconserve.com
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AME, Bangalore, www.amefound.org
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AGRAGAMEE, Orissa, www.agragamee.org
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ANTHRA, Andhra Pradesh, www.anthra.org
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BAIF Research Foundation – MITTRA, www.mittra.com
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KEYSTONE Foundation, Tamilnadu, www.keystone-foundation.org
- SATVIK, Kutch, Gujarat
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saMvaad
The major focus of CBM-India Programme include: capacity building, knowledge exchange, policy analysis and advocacy. For this, along with carrying on-farm in-situ conservation of plant diversity in Karnataka by Green Foundation and animal genetic (Deccani breed) diversity in Andhra Pradesh by ANTHRA, CBM-SA India programme proposes to set-up an e-mail based discussion group, “SaMvaad.”
SaMvaad provides a space to assess the trends in conservation & use of genetic resources and document the associated knowledge. This is a platform to:
- Network with grassroots, national and international institutes, organizations, groups and practitioners working on conservation of genetic resources and CBM
- Raise awareness of status, trend and value for conservation and use of genetic resources for livelihoods amongst practitioners, scientists and policy makers
- Collate and disseminate CBM strategy experiences for conservation and utilization of plant and animal genetic resources
- Mobilize and conduct policy research to analyse implication of existing policies and laws for conservation of genetic resources
- Disseminate findings and organize policy dialogues from local to national level to promote a supportive policy environment for CBM
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