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1161) Agricultural biodiversity in Southern Brazil: integrating efforts for conservation and use of neglected and underutilized species
Brazil is one of the most biodiversity-rich countries in the world, including a wealth of agricultural biodiversity in both wild and cultivated forms. This is particularly noticeable in southern Brazil, home to a wide array of underutilized food species whose genetic diversity is maintained mostly by...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2014
1162) Policy and performance in Uganda's seed sector: Opportunities and challenges
Efforts to increase smallholder access to improved varieties and quality seed is often central to agricultural development, economic growth, and poverty reduction in low-income countries. Yet many governments and development partners grow impatient with slow progress in their seed sectors. Uganda stands...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2022
1163) Access and benefit sharing, farmers’ rights and plant breeders’ rights: reflections on the African Model Law
This article discusses the protection of new plant varieties in Africa and the African Model Law through the lens of its key protagonist, Professor Johnson Ekpere. It urges African countries to consult the African Model Law as a guide when designing plant variety protection systems. It is hoped that...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1164) Setting conservation priorities for crop wild relatives in the Fertile Crescent
The aim of this paper is to contribute directly to the systematic, long-term conservation of crop wild relatives (CWR) in the Fertile Crescent by setting conservation priorities to secure and improve CWR conservation in situ and ex situ as a means of underpinning global food security. This paper presents...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Near East
Publication year: 2018
1165) Follow the Seeds
A short video featuring people that are actively involved in the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Plant Treaty celebrating guardians of crop diversity and the link between crop diversity and food.
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2024