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    1001) Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) Uganda: Local seed businesses in Uganda

    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

    1002) 5 Key Resources on Gender approach in Access and Benefit Sharing

    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

    1003) Vegetable Genepools in Nepal: An Update on Semi- domesticated, Wild and Wild Relatives Awaiting Conservation and Sustainable Utilization

    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

    1004) Participatory Plant Breeding Toolkit

    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

    1005) Yield, yield stability and farmers’ preferences of evolutionary populations of bread wheat: A dynamic solution to climate change

    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