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921) Evolutionary and food supply implications of ongoing maize domestication by Mexican campesinos
Maize evolution under domestication is a process that continues today. Case studies suggest that Mexican smallholder family farmers, known as campesinos, contribute importantly to this, but their significance has not been explicitly quantified and analysed as a whole. Here, the authors examine the evolutionary...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2018
922) Educational Module on Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty
Lesson 1, for example, focuses on technical aspects of conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA, which will be particularly relevant for civil servants that do not have a technical background in genetics or plant breeding. Lessons 2 and 3, in turn, explain the legal provisions of the International Treaty...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2012
923) Key descriptors for fodder trees
The Key descriptors for fodder trees consist of an initial minimum set of characterization and evaluation descriptors for some species of the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae). This strategic set aims at facilitating access to and utilization of these species and it does not exclude the addition of other...
Subject: Grains/Cereals/Pulses/Root crops/Fruits
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2023
924) The UPOV accession process - Preventing appropriate PVP laws for new members
The study "The UPOV accession process: Preventing appropriate PVP laws for new members", published today by the South Centre and APBREBES, analyses the accession process for countries that want to become members of UPOV and provides both surprising and worrying results.
Subject: Crop diversity; Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2023
925) Traditional food plants of the upper Aswa River catchment of northern Uganda—a cultural crossroads
In the parkland agroforestry system of northern Uganda, smallholder farming households rely on a diversity of plant species to fulfil their nutritional requirements, many of which also serve a range of medicinal, cultural, and livelihood functions. The purpose of the study was to assemble an inventory...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021