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This video from ISSD Uganda looks at how farmers, as members of Uganda's 30 Local Seed Businesses (LSBs), are collaborating toward the production quality declared seed, enabling significantly increased crop yields.
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2015
In terms of biodiversity conservation women are key players. They maintain a tight relationship with genetic and biological resources, as users, managers, and custodians of the biological diversity. However, their role as part of decision-making processes at their communities is often limited. This issue...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
From time immemorable, native communities of Nepal are consuming varieties of wild and semi-domesticated plants as seasonal vegetables. Such species are highly preferred among the people living in periurban and urban areas too. Unsustainable collection and over exploitation of such resources could limit...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2021
This toolkit includes a background on the theory and practice of participatory plant breeding (PPB), case studies of successful projects, and worksheets to facilitate project planning and execution.
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2012
The role of biodiversity in plant breeding needs to be reconsidered to cope with the complexity, location specificity and combined challenges of climate change, human population increase, human health and food security, safety and sovereignty. From a biological viewpoint, heterogeneous plant populations...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020