 |
 |
Technical Resources | Help on this page |
851) Biodiversity and Plant Breeding as Tools for Harmony - Between Modern Agriculture Production and the Environment
The agenda for a new “Green Revolution” needs to consider new approaches to promote innovations in plant science, agricultural and management practices and benefits to farmers and consumers. In this article two general ways are described in which plant breeders can engage in environmental issues:...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2015
852) “The Old Foods Are the New Foods!”: Erosion and Revitalization of Indigenous Food Systems in Northwestern North America
Indigenous people have always valued their ancestral foods, and over the last few decades there have been many initiatives throughout the region to restore and revitalize these original foods, and to re-learn Indigenous methods of processing and harvesting them. This paper describes the original Indigenous...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: North America
Publication year: 2020
853) The centrality of seed: Building agricultural resilience through plant breeding
This short article introduces the concepts of participatory plant breeding (PPB) and evolutionary plant breeding (EPB) and includes a case study of PPB of tomatoes for organic farming.
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global; Europe
Publication year: 2016
854) Home gardens’ agrobiodiversity and owners’ knowledge of their ecological, economic and socio-cultural multifunctionality: a case study in the lowlands of Tabasco, México
Home gardens (HGs) are hotspots of in situ agrobiodiversity conservation. This study was conducted in Tabasco, México, and focused on HG owners’ knowledge of HG ecological, economical and socio-cultural multifunctionality and how it relates to agrobiodiversity as measured by species richness and diversity....
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020
855) Farmer seed enterprises: A sustainable approach to seed delivery?
A major reason for the low adoption of modern varieties of seed among small-scale farmers in developing countries is the inability of formal, centralized seed production systems to meet their complex and diverse seed requirements. Drawing on experiences in Uganda with the common bean, the paper proposes...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2004