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How one of the world’s richest centers of biodiversity responds to the climate crisis. Seeds for Needs, an ambitious project created with joint support from Ethiopian farmers and researchers at Bioversity International, Mekelle University, and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, began looking into...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
This document is a user manual of ClimMob which is an online software for agricultural citizen science, it relies on a citizen science approach called tricot. The idea behind this software is "Instead of a few researchers carrying out complicated field trials, large numbers of farmers or gardeners carry...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
Variety mixtures can provide a range of benefits for both the crop and the environment. Their utility for the suppression of pathogens, especially in small grain crops, is well established and has seen some remarkable successes. However, despite decades of academic interest in the topic, commercial efforts...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
The use of crop wild relatives (CWRs) in breeding is likely to continue to intensify as utilization techniques improve and crop adaptation to climate change becomes more pressing. Significant gaps remain in the conservation of these genetic resources. As a first step toward a national strategy for the...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: North America
Publication year: 2013
The State of Food and Agriculture 2021 presents country-level indicators of the resilience of agrifood systems. The indicators measure the robustness of primary production and food availability, as well as physical and economic access to food. They can thus help assess the capacity of national agrifood...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021