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676) Genebank Operation in the Arena of Access and Benefit-Sharing Policies
This paper notes that although the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)’s Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-Sharing provides opportunities for easier access to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA), plant genebanks face increasing...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
677) Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion Agroecology and Endogenous Development
This open access book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous conceptualization of seed governance often characterized as traditional versus modern, subsistence versus commercial, or local versus global. While reflecting on the...
Subject: Crop diversity; Seed system
Regions: Asia; Global
Publication year: 2022
678) Harnessing Crop Wild Relatives for Crop Improvement
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are the potential source of novel traits and genetic variation in food crops with narrow genetic base. CWRs include immediate progenitor of crop species and other species of plants which are closer to them in near evolutionary history. CWRs are the sources of novel alleles...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
679) Biodiversity and Plant Health – Diversity and genetic resources - BSV 2
BSV 2 project - The project focuses on the genetic selection of plant varieties of interest in terms of nutrition and for the diversification of agrobiodiversity in the Indian Ocean. It also promotes endemic plants in Reunion Island, studies their genetic resistance to disease, and encourages the use...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa; Asia; Europe
Publication year: 2021
680) Exchange and experimentation: community seed banks strengthen farmers’ seed systems in Northern Malawi
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the cultivation of local crop varieties persists despite a political environment that favours commercial seed system development to address seed and food insecurity. Community seed banks (CSBs) are emergent alternative/complementary development initiatives, yet there remains limited...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2022