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771) These Rare Seeds Escaped Syria's War—to Help Feed the World
In 2014, the remaining staff of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) fled their gene bank in Tel Hadia, 20 miles south of Aleppo. Syria’s civil war, which had broken out three years earlier, had finally made the staffing of the facility untenable. But the scientists...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Near East
Publication year: 2020
772) Ex situ and in situ conservation gap analysis of crop wild relative diversity in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are important reservoirs of adaptive traits for crop breeding programmes. Both ex situ and in situ conservation approaches should be deployed to ensure CWR availability for use. This paper aims to (a) create a regional database of occurrence records for the 441 priority CWRs...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Near East
Publication year: 2021
773) Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms
Small farms constitute most of the world’s farms and are a central focus of sustainable agricultural development. However, the relationship between farm size and production, profitability, biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions remains contested. Here, the authors synthesize current knowledge through...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
774) Taking climate action through traditional seeds
Seed lies at the heart of our agricultural and food systems. The story we know of the diverse cultural food from around our African continent is that, in most African traditions, seed is largely cultivated by women to feed their families and provide for community livelihoods. The diversity of seed cultivated...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
775) Genetic Resources
The Genetic Resources journal serves as a platform to share global knowledge and tools used within the community of practitioners of plant, animal and forest genetic resources involved in monitoring, collecting, maintaining, characterizing and using in situ or ex situ genetic resources for food and agriculture.The...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020