The Raffaella Foundation offers free training materials and low cost training in multiple languages in the use of diversity tools that are hosted or supported by the Raffaella Foundation.
DATAR Training for Trainers
Training materials, documents and videos for the Diversity Assessment Tool for Agrobiodiversity and Resilience (DATAR) are freely available through the DATAR Web Portal after registering for free at www.datar-par.org.
DATAR Training Courses for crop and livestock are offered at cost to support time and travel of trainers. For further information contact: a.bernis-fonteneau@raffaellafoundation.org
Agrobiodiversity for Productivity and Resilience Course Materials
Based on twenty years of global research, the comprehensive textbook: “Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm: Principles and Applications in Research Practices”, Yale University Press, provides the basis of a semester curriculum that places farmer-managed crop biodiversity squarely in the center of the science needed to feed the world, and restore health to our productive landscapes. Bringing together the fields of ecology, agronomy, crop breeding, genetics, anthropology, sociology, economics and policy the textbook provides theory and tools for identifying ways of supporting farmers to maintain, use and benefit from the crop genetic diversity in their agricultural production systems.
Download the Book in Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic and Farsi or purchase in English