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1251) Increasing the Profile of Crop Diversity in Agricultural Production and Policies in Uzbekistan
Rapid environmental and socio-economic changes caused by climate change, population growth, migration, and other factors create important challenges to agricultural production in Central Asia. More intense droughts and soil salinization are among the key environmental problems that smallholder farmers...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2017
1252) DivSeek – Harnessing the power of crop diversity to feed the future
Approximately seven million crop accessions are currently being conserved in genebanks collections worldwide. This resource represents one of the greatest, largely untapped, opportunities for accelerating yield gains and overcoming emerging crop productivity bottlenecks. However to access this wealth...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
1253) Our shared global responsibility: Safeguarding crop diversity for future generations
The resilience and sustainability of food systems depend on crop diversity. It is used by breeders to produce new and better varieties, and by farmers to respond to new challenges or demands and to spread risk. However, crop diversity can only be used if it has been conserved, can be identified as the...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2023
1254) Heat-tolerant wild beans tapped to breed commercial beans for hotter climates
For beans to continue playing a major role in human diets, new varieties must adapt and thrive. Scientists believe crop wild relatives (CWR) are essential to meet this goal. Wild relatives have valuable genetic diversity that can be used to develop high-yielding crops that tolerate high temperatures,...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2019
1255) Building a better future for family farms by investing in 21st century seeds
Diversification is a central tenet of any good risk management plan, whether applied to business and finance, or food and farming. In agriculture, biological diversity is key to ensuring success: having a variety of well-adapted crops not only reduces the impacts of extreme weather, pests, and disease,...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A