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946) Plant Genebanks: Present Situation and Proposals for Their Improvement. the Case of the Spanish Network
Genebanks were created by the middle of the twentieth century to preserve cultivated biodiversity when landraces began to be substituted by modern varieties. After about 75 years of collecting and maintaining genetic resources, the increasing ability of biotechnology to create new variability brings...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2018
947) A New Native Seed Cooperative Aims to Rebuild Indigenous Foodways
The Indigenous Seed Growers Network sprouted from the pandemic, and is quickly evolving to help communities secure their own food systems for generations to come. In recent months, the cooperative has hosted a seed census which involves identifying where seeds are located and how much seed supply each...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
948) Marginal areas and indigenous people priorities for research and action
The Global Forum for Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) is building collective actions to improve poor farmers’ livelihoods, including indigenous and other communities living in marginal areas, by enhancing the market value of forgotten foods and the crops from which they derive, intervening...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
949) Field Manual on Agroecology
Agroecology is the course of action that we need to take if we want sustainable food systems and be able to feed the world’s growing population. The first chapter of this manual explains the basic concepts and principles of agroecology and establishes the urgent need to transform agriculture. We cannot...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia; Global
Publication year: 2021
950) Strengthening linkages between small actors and buyers in the Roots and Tubers sector in Africa
In the framework of launching the project “Strengthening linkages between small actors and buyers in the Roots and Tubers sector in Africa”, FAO Uganda has organized a one-day inception workshop to which key stakeholders in the Irish potato value chain in Uganda were invited. The participants included...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2015