706) Social Process of Adaptation to Environmental Changes: How Eastern African Societies Intervene between Crops and Climate

Studies on climate change can only be conducted on a long time scale, and observing how societies adapt their sowing practices to climate variability is challenging and costly. As an alternative, a space and time substitution design was used, changes in space corresponding to that induced in time by...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2014

707) SHiNeMaS: a Web Tool Dedicated to Seed Lots History, Phenotyping and Cultural Practices

In 2005, researchers from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, INRAE) started a collaboration with the French farmers’ seed network Réseau Semences Paysannes (RSP) on...

Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches

Regions: Europe

Publication year: 2020

708) How Crowdsourcing Seeds Can Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change

Crowdsourcing seeds enables farmers to make more informed seed choices in the face of rising temperatures, drought, and other extreme weather events. And by accelerating and improving recommendations of the most suitable varieties for a specific region, it allows farmers to contribute to a broader understanding...

Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2019

709) Priority areas for the in situ conservation of crop wild relatives in South Africa

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are wild plant taxa that have broader genetic diversity than crops hence they are an excellent source of genes and traits to improve crops. The potential value of CWR for agriculture and the need to protect these plants in their natural habitats (in situ) have been recognized...

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2019

710) Cryopreservation of banana genetic material

Subject: Crop diversity; Grains/Cereals/Pulses/Root crops/Fruits; Plant breeding techniques and approaches

Regions: Africa; Asia; Europe; Global; Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2009