{"id":1245,"date":"2021-04-22T10:44:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebi.gov.et\/?page_id=1245"},"modified":"2021-04-22T10:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:44:46","slug":"crop-community-gene-banks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ebi.gov.et\/am\/biodiversity\/conservation\/field-gene-banks\/crop-community-gene-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Crop Community Gene Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1245\" class=\"elementor elementor-1245\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-34f19331 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"34f19331\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-719d76b6\" data-id=\"719d76b6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-665160c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"665160c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Community based in-situ conservation initiative<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1206\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"text-align: justify; width: 311px;\">\n\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5837 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.gov.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Farmer-discussing-about-landraces.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"259\" \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Farmer discussing about Landraces<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Landraces are genetically diverse populations that form a bridge between wild and modern cultivated varieties. Through human selection, adaptation and exchange of genes with wild species, they form an important genetic diversity that has evolved in local environments over long periods of time. Many small-scale farmers in Ethiopia and elsewhere in developing countries have often traditionally retained a diverse informal seed stock. The seed stock includes a range of varieties for several crops. This enables them to choose the variety that best suits the highly variable agroecological conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Dynamic Farmer Based Approach to the Conservation of Ethiopia\u2019s Plant Genetic Resources Project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was initiated in 1994 addressing a neglected aspect of plant diversity that of indigenous crop varieties maintained by farmers in dynamic agro-ecosystems. This community-based\u00a0<em>in situ<\/em>\u00a0conservation project is designated to link farming communities and their varieties with the existing formal genetic resources conservation efforts of the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation by means of establishing community gene banks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5838 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.gov.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cgb-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this project, twelve on-farm in situ conservation sites and community gene banks have been established for farmers\u2019 varieties in six agro-ecological regions, namely Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR). Farmer Conservator Associations have been formed for each\u00a0<em>in situ<\/em>\u00a0conservation site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agro-morphological, nutritional, biochemical and ethnobotanical studies were conducted on some of the crop species under\u00a0<em>in situ<\/em>\u00a0conservation. Crop germplasm samples originally collected from the\u00a0<em>in situ<\/em>\u00a0sites and maintained at the genebank were also restored at their respective sites. Indigenous knowledge of the farmers on their crop cultivars such as methods of selection, cultivation and use of different crops and cultivars, women\u2019s knowledge and role, seed exchange and movement were surveyed and documented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conservation at the farm level allows for continuing farmer selection, interaction with the environment and gene exchange with the wild species so that evolution of landraces may continue.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community based in-situ conservation initiative \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Farmer discussing about Landraces Landraces are genetically diverse populations that form a bridge between wild and modern cultivated varieties. 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