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681) The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems
This paper articulates the importance of respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples to ensure the protection and preservation of their foods systems, and the value this can add to tackle emerging global challenges. Furthermore, it advocates that lessons learned from Indigenous Peoples’ approach to...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
682) Integrating Conventional and Participatory Crop Improvement for Smallholder Agriculture Using the Seeds for Needs Approach: A Review
In response to the climate change, it is essential to provide smallholder farmers with improved field crop genotypes that may increase the resilience of their farming system. This requires a fast turnover of varieties in a system capable of injecting significant amounts of genetic diversity into productive...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
683) Crop wild relatives - actions needed to assure conservation of an important genetic resource
This policy brief recommends eight specific actions to assure conservation of important crop wild relatives (CWR) in Nordic region. CWRs are wild species closely related to crops and they can contain many important traits missing from modern cultivars. Because of this, they can be used in adaptation...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2019
684) Exploiting genetic diversity from landraces in wheat breeding for adaptation to climate change
Climate change has generated unpredictability in the timing and amount of rain, as well as extreme heat and cold spells that have affected grain yields worldwide and threaten food security. Sources of specific adaptation related to drought and heat, as well as associated breeding of genetic traits, will...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2015
685) Strengthening the role of custodian farmers in the national conservation programme of Nepal
The workshop “Enhancing the contribution of custodian farmers to the National Plant Genetic Resources System in Nepal” brought together farmers from distant parts of Nepal who were recognized for their outstanding dedication and contribution to the conservation of agricultural biodiversity, known...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2015