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1036) ECPGR Concept for on-farm conservation and management of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
This document constitutes a ECPGR’s contribution to a future European strategy for the conservation of genetic resources for food and agriculture. After a short introduction describing the rationale for on-farm conservation and management in Europe, this document includes a chapter outlining the appropriate...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2017
1037) Status of crop plants of agricultural importance in Kerala state, India: an update
The state of Kerala in India, a part of the Western Ghats–Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot, is blessed with rich biodiversity including agrobiodiversity. Richness in crop diversity is attributed to the wide topographic and climatic niches, long history of outside contacts, personal craving for experimenting...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2021
1038) Descriptors for web-enabled national in situ landrace inventories
This document provides a list of descriptors to facilitate the development of National Inventories of landraces that are still maintained in situ (i.e. on farm or in garden).
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2012
1039) Wild food plants and minor crops in the Ripollès district (Catalonia, Iberian Peninsula): potentialities for developing a local production, consumption and exchange program
Wild food plants (WFP) have always been consumed by humans, first as the main basis of their food and, since the origins of agriculture, as ingredients of normal diets or as an alternative during situations of scarcity. In contemporary industrialized societies their use is for the most part being abandoned,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2016
1040) Organic and Sustainable Farmers Can Feed the World
A key question that is often asked about ecological agriculture, including organic agriculture, is whether it can be productive enough to meet the world's food needs. While many agree that ecological agriculture is desirable from an environmental and social point of view, there remain fears that ecological...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2008