Knowledge Management Portal

The role of women’s associations in converting farm harvests into high-value food and malt products will be supported to generate 10 to 100 times more income than the simple harvest. Adequate connection with physical retailers and digital markets will be ensured, while in parallel, preliminary consumer appreciation studies will be conducted to assess the potential for gaining market shares.

MountainHER provides training and tools to favor the purchase of local harvests at higher prices by the women associations. In exchange, farmers are prompted to produce following agro-ecological practices, which are on one hand more respectful of the environment, and on the other, can generate higher prices for the food produced.

AGENT aims to transform genebanks from living archives into bio-digital resource centers, equipped to meet the needs of a changing world. Plant genetic resources hold the key for adapting crops to a changing climate, which we are increasingly facing worldwide. In order to facilitate the educated selection and utilization of plant genetic resources in breeding and agriculture, a systematic effort towards the identification and incorporation of these valuable resources is of crucial importance. The establishment of a global network will sustainably unlock the genetic diversity of food crops for future generations and make them intuitively accessible for modern breeding programs.

This project is collaborating with the WWCS project of Caritas in Tajikistan - From reactive response to informed management: Leveraging weather, water and climate services for sustainable rural livelihoods and well-being in Tajikistan - to provide scientific backstopping. The support will focus on the development of methodologies and protocols for tracking outcomes envisioned within the WWCS initiative. The thematic focus and multi-stakeholder approach of the project embody a level of complexity that necessitates the engagement of novel scientific, government and business partners.