Sentence examples for indigenous seeds from inspiring English sources

"We really need to protect our own indigenous seeds".

A new push to commercialise agriculture in Africa could, however, put the future of the continent's diverse, indigenous seeds at risk.

It also set up the largest direct-marketing, fair-trade organic network in the country and has established seed banks to preserve indigenous seeds.

It is also part of a pioneering experiment to link scientists with small-scale farmers to collectively revive and conserve traditional, indigenous seeds in the face of drought and other threats.

Participation is intensive, and Tomy Mathew, one of the founders of FTAK, considers this to be the main reason for their success, as local groups are involved in everything from microcredit to the preservation of indigenous seeds.

In Protect or Plunder, Shiva notes three essentials to farmers' agricultural practices: seed sharing, exchange of ideas, and knowledge gained by working with indigenous seeds (2001 20044; 2012a).

The Green Revolution, she maintained, had led to pollution, a loss of indigenous seed diversity and traditional agricultural knowledge, and the troubling dependence of poor farmers on costly chemicals.

Other high priorities include restoring indigenous seed varieties that are more tolerant of drought and other climate extremes, and developing wind power, a technology already advancing rapidly throughout the Great Plains, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

In many indigenous cultures seeds aren't just nuggets of genetic information, they are also sacred.

The present study was designed to investigate the adverse effects of indigenous Kamala seed etheral extract on various reproductive parameters of female rats.

In Baringo, Laikipia, Marsabit and other drylands in Kenya, 10 tonnes of indigenous perennial grass seeds are distributed and seeded annually.