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536) Peru potato potential: Biodiversity conservation and value chain development
Although crop diversity has been identified as essential to enhance global food security and adapt to climate change, high loss of genetic resources is occurring due to agricultural industrialization and market requirements. Value chain development is an emerging market strategy that seeks to simultaneously...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2016
537) Seed banks and national policy in Brazil
Increasingly, seeds are the domain of professional breeders, agribusiness and policy makers. They decide what makes for a good variety and they develop legislation that excludes other varieties. Despite this, family farmer organizations and social movements in Paraíba, Brazil, have managed to strengthen...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2016
538) Return to Agrobiodiversity: Participatory Plant Breeding
Biodiversity in general, and agrobiodiversity in particular are crucial for adaptation to climate change, for resilience and for human health as related to dietary diversity. Participatory plant breeding (PPB) has been promoted for its advantages to increase selection efficiency, variety adoption and...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2022
539) Evaluation of FAO's contribution to Sustainable Development Goal 2 - Support to agricultural investment
Agricultural investment is key to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2). This study – part of the evaluation of the role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in supporting SDG 2 – examines the FAO Investment Centre’s role in promoting agricultural investment...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
540) Community Biodiversity Management as an Approach for Realizing On-farm Management of Agricultural Biodiversity
Community Biodiversity Management (CBM) is a community-driven participatory approach that empowers farmers and communities to organize themselves and develop strategies that support the on-farm management of agricultural biodiversity for the improvement of their livelihoods. The CBM approach integrates...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2016