National Conference
on
ENSURING FOOD SECURITY IN A CHANGING CLIMATE

Part I : Proceedings		Part II: Presentations & Papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 INDIA TODAY FEATURE ON GENE BANKS

 

 

“Suman Sahai, founder of Gene Campaign, the organization which has opened community-run Gene-Seed Banks across the state of Jharkhand, believes that nature's technologies can meet the needs of humanity. She regrets that there is next to no effort in government to protect crop biodiversity. There cannot be long-term food security without preserving the biodiversity of crop plants”. At Gene Campaign's community-run gene banks across Jharkhand, farmers are lent seeds of various varieties of rice according to their land profile. After harvesting, they have to return three times the amount of seed back to the bank so that it can be dispensed to more farmers. Gene Campaign has a collection of more than 2,000 varieties of rice most of which were about to be lost. "The idea is to make farmers the custodians of seeds and thus biodiversity," says Sahai. | Read the full story in India Today 19 July, 2010

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RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suman Sahai

 

A two day national conference was organized by Gene Campaign along with ActionAid, on Ensuring Food Security in a Changing Climate to generate greater awareness about this crucial issue and to develop recommendations for future action. The conference held in Delhi , brought together over 200 participants from 22 states : Haryana, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram, West Bengal, Tamilnadu, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab , Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala , New Delhi and Pondichery.