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1196) Traditional and Indigenous Fruits and Vegetables for Food System Transformation
Fruit and vegetable consumption is recommended in numerous food-based dietary guidelines and forms a key recommendation in many international statements related to healthy diets. There are thousands of fruit and vegetable species from which to choose, but despite this abundance from nature, populations...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
1197) Grassroots communities produce certified onion seed in Cameroon
High-quality onion production begins with high-quality onion seed. Ensuring farmers’ access to quality seed requires the use of research-proven techniques. This project aimed to improve the onion seed system by strengthening producers’ capacity to produce certified onion seeds. The project built...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1198) BSF project "Shared management & use of (agro) biodiversity by indigenous & traditional communities from the semi-arid region of Minas in Brazil"
" Shared management & use of (agro) biodiversity by indigenous & traditional communities from the semi-arid region of Minas in Brazil" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Second Cycle). Brazil has a vast number of plant varieties...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: N/A
1199) Conserving Traditional Seed Crops Diversity
Over the last two decades, 75% of the genetic diversity of agricultural crops has been lost. Genetic diversity is the basis of all crop improvement. Crop varieties, as an integral part of genetic diversity, are the result of human selection and management, as well as natural mechanisms of evolution....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2015
1200) Global Strategy for the ex situ Conservation of Finger Millet and its Wild Relatives
This document, developed with the input of a large number of experts, aims to provide a framework for the efficient and effective ex situ conservation of globally important collections of finger millet.
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2012