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1101) Guidance for Emergency Seed Interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic

This Guidance Note provides key information to implementing organizations that might be considering an emergency seed intervention for the forthcoming planting season linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, often overlain with other stresses. The guidance is presented in four parts: 1) Background on seed security...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2020

1102) Seed Legislation in Europe and Crop Genetic Diversity

Seed legislation specifies the requirements that seed and other propagating material must fulfil to be marketed legally, and how this marketing may be conducted. Such legislation can have a great impact on the composition of the seed market, as well as on cultivation and breeding, not least as it has...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Europe

Publication year: 2015

1103) Access and Benefit Sharing Toolkit for the Management of Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge in Bhutan

Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is a relatively new concept in Bhutan since it came to the forefront only after the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol in 2010. While there have been several efforts to create awareness on ABS till date, the need to provide holistic information on ABS under one window for...

Subject: Traditional Knowledge

Regions: Asia

Publication year: 2018

1104) A global database for the distributions of crop wild relatives

CIAT published a global database for the distributions of crop wild relatives. This dataset was assembled as part of the project ‘Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives’, which is supported by the Government of Norway. The project is managed...

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: Global

Publication year: N/A

1105) SADC Crop Wild Relatives Project

South African Development Community (SADC) Crop Wild Relatives Project, co-funded by the European Union in 2014 and implemented through ACP-EU Co-operation Programme in Science and Technology, has two main aims. First, to develop scientific expertise in SADC to conserve crop wild relatives and identify...