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1341) Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Safeguarding our Food Security
A booklet that explains the importance of PGRFA for food and agriculture and how it is promoted under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. It describes different measures that can be taken to support the conservation of PGRFA as well as how to promote a sustainable...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2023
1342) Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash: A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book shares impact stories – testimonies from various value chain actors who have been part of the Tropical Legumes projects, over the past twelve years. The projects developed improved cultivars of common bean, cowpea, chickpea and groundnut (but also soya bean and pigeon pea cultivars in its...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
1343) Key descriptors for Irvingia spp. (bush mango)
This Descriptor list consists of an initial minimum set of characterization and evaluation Irvingia spp. (bush mango). Irvingia species, commonly known as bush mango, as well as in their local names namely, dikka, dikanut, dikabread tree, odika, ogbono, or iba-tree, are multipurpose fruit trees growing...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global; Asia; Africa
Publication year: 2021
1344) In situ Conservation Assessment of Forage and Fodder CWR in Spain Using Phytosociological Associations
Crop wild relatives (CWR) can be used to mitigate the negative effects of climate change on crops, but their genetic diversity conservation has not been properly addressed. This study proposes a new target unit for conservation (Asso-EcoU) based on the occurrence of phytosociological associations in...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2019
1345) The Aguaruna and their Indigenous Foods
In recent decades Indigenous Peoples globally have experienced rapid and dramatic shifts in lifestyle that are unprecedented in history. Moving away from their own self-sustaining, local food systems into industrially derived food supplies, these changes have adverse effects on dietary quality and health....
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2019