To plant and harvest an own variety collection at farm lever every year

Implementation

Long term

Sustainability components

  • GHG emissions
  • Air quality
  • Soil
  • Water
  • Biodiversity
  • Animal welfare
  • Economic
  • Social
  • Technical feasibility

Climate risk region

Southern
Southern

Weather event addressed

Floods / Heavy rainfall
Very high temperatures / Heat wave
Intense frost / Late frost
Wind / storms

Farming system

CEREAL CROPS
Cereals, legumes, oilseeds, vegetables

Description of the measure

At long term, create a variety collection at farm level, that allows the farmer to face the main extreme weather events

Comments on sustainability

Farmers find difficulties to acess to new varieties at research level, economic invests and technical assessment are needed. Legal impediments to share seeds between conventional farmers can make this measure adverse at social and economic level.