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Supporting Conservation of Farmers’ Seed Varieties

13 Feb, 13

What are Farmers’ Seed Varieties? Farmers’ seed varieties are crop species, which are developed by natural processes, by adaptation to the natural and cultural environment in which they live. Farmers have selected, domesticated and put in use their crop varieties

Media briefing

12 Feb, 13

Community Based Agro-biodiversity Management (CBAM), MELCA-Ethiopia Program
Recently, a group of filmmakers was at Ejere kebele, in Lome woreda, Eastern Showa Zone of Oromia Regional State. The group had a visit to the kebele to document the story of how

Activities and Events

Events and main activities of MELCA August until December 2012 generic cialis 100mg click here argaiv1421
August 2012	Events and main activities	Place
1. Week	Income Generating Activities (IGA): Training on Participatory Crop Selection for 60 farmers	Menagesha Suba project area
1. Week	Experience sharing 5 cross- sites: Consultative workshop for 50 participants on women's participation in CSBs and leadership participation CSBs	Menagesha Suba project area
06. – 15.08.	Training on Biocultural Diversity and Population, Health and Environment (PHE)	Sheka project area
2. + 3. Week	Ecosystem conservation and environmental protection activities: Fencing the two sacred sites	Bale project area
27.08. – 03.09.	Hosting Cultural Biodiversity (CB) Training for ABN Partners from Kenya, South Africa, Togo, Benin & Zimbabwe	Ethiopia
September 2012
1. Week	Rehabilitation of Telecho Area Ecosystem: Community dialogues on forest rights	Menagesha Suba project area
06. – 15.09.	Possible Participation in the American Zoo Association Meeting	USA
2. Week	PHE training for communities DA’s Health Experts	Menagesha Suba project area
24. – 28.09.	Participatory Mapping	Bale project area
4. Week + 1. Week	Establish PHE committee in the schools out of Nature (SEGNI) clubs, Anti ADIS clubs, women and population clubs from community	Bale Project area
October 2012
08. – 18.10.	Possible Participation in CBD Conference of the Parties (COP) 11	India
2. + 3. Week	Training for teachers on herbarium preservation, documentation and SEGNI counseling	Bale Project area
22. – 26.10.	Meeting on Alliance for Food Sovereignity in Africa (AFSA)	Ghana
3. +4. Week	Participatory mapping training for schools (SEGNI)	Bale Project area
27.10. – 03.11.	ABN strategic meeting	Kenya
November 2012
05. – 15.11.	Climate Change, Seed and Knowledge training for ABN Partners	Ethiopia
2. + 3. Week	Celebration of Climate Change Awareness Day in Schools (SEGNI)	Bale Project area
26. – 29.11.	Meeting on using Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) for Ecosystem assessment	South Africa
December 2012
1. Week	Annual CB and mountain Nyala day celebration (SEGNI)	Bale Project area
2. Week	CB celebration (AWARD for schools that are working hard)	Sheka project area