Bhandara District Farmers Development Forum

• About: REGISTER OF PLANT USESBhandara District Farmers Development Forum in Maharashtra, India has been registering the uses of local plants from 1987.
• Home: Bhandara District Farmers Development Forum in East Maharashtra, IndiaAfter a meeting in 1996 at the Academy of Development Science, the Bhandara District Farmers Development Forum and several other smaller NGOs had monthly meetings about saving their own seeds (previously they had promoted Green Revolution varieties).

Green Foundation

• Home: The GREEN (Genetic Resources, Ecology, Energy & Nutrition) Foundation works with farmers to save, multiply and conserve the lost agricultural diversity of the drylands region of southern India.
  Indigenous agricultural practices and crops offer small and marginal farmers high productivity, diversity and security against crop failures due to drought or pests.

Japan Seed Savers

• About: Jude and Michel toured Japan for a month in July 2000 meeting people interested in starting grass roots seed organisations.
• Home: As a result of a tour by Jude and Michel Fanton of The Seed Savers' Network, a national group of seed savers has been formed in Japan.

La Red de Semillas in Havana

• Home: Local network springs to life in Cuba.

Madre Selva Permaculture Centre

• About: Report no 5. from seed and permaculture volunteers inEcuador
  
  July 2001

Planting Materials Network

• About: The Planting Material Network central link gardens has become a training centre for young students from vocational training centres.
• FAQs: What happens at a provincial seed centre?
• Home: Over its five years, the PMN has recorded, multiplied and distributed hundreds of local varieties of vegetable seeds and staple crops such as yams and taros. The Department of Agriculture has allocated funds to the PMN and offered the use of four of its provincial training centres.

Pro-People Village Development Foundation

• About: The Pro-People Village Development Foundation has worked in a diverse range of ways to help farmers preserve traditional varieties.
• Home: Balasaheb travelled from his farm in Pathri in the Parbhani District of East Maharashtra (800km) for a meeting of seed savers with Jude from Seed Savers' Network at the Academy of Development Science near Bombay in June.