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741) The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021
On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms of magnitudes previously unseen, and the COVID-19...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
742) Untapped Potential: The Importance of African genebanks in ensuring food security across the continent
Genebanks are full of untapped potential in the incredible wealth of crop diversity they hold, and many are unable to live up to their promise due to an array of challenges, including being under-resourced. By making seeds available to breeders and farmers to develop and use crop varieties adapted to...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
743) Cryopreservation of Woody Crops: The Avocado Case
Recent development and implementation of crop cryopreservation protocols has increased the capacity to maintain recalcitrant seeded germplasm collections via cryopreserved in vitro material. To preserve the greatest possible plant genetic resources globally for future food security and breeding programs,...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
744) Twenty-five years of international exchanges of plant genetic resources facilitated by the CGIAR genebanks: a case study on global interdependence
This article analyses 25 years of data about international movements of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA), facilitated by the gene banks hosted by seven centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. It identifies trends in the movements of PGRFA for...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2016
745) Decision-making tool for national implementation of the Plant Treaty’s multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing
This decision-making tool is designed to assist national-level policy actors identify appropriate measures to implement the multilateral system within their country, taking into consideration the fact that a growing number of countries that are Contracting Parties to the ITPGRFA are also parties to...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018