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1351) Sugarcane breeding in Reunion: Challenges, achievements and future prospects
All over the world, sugarcane breeding programs are developing new, high-yielding cultivars that are resistant to major diseases to improve the profitability and sustainability of the sugar-energy industries they serve. In Reunion Island, sugarcane genetic improvement efforts began in 1929. Many challenges...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2022
1352) Farmers' Rights in Practice : Synthesis of the Case Studies on Sustainable Use of Agrobiodiversity
The project "Good Practices in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Sovereignty: Developing an Inclusive Approach in the Fight against Poverty" provides a collection of case studies of good practices on the sustainable use of PGRFA. This collection is based on the action-research method and was done in 2010...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe; Africa
Publication year: 2013
1353) Biobanking of vegetable genetic resources by in vitro conservation and cryopreservation
Today, application of in vitro culture and cryopreservation presents a remarkable strategic tool to support medium- and long-term conservation of plant genetic resources. Over the last 30 years, considerable progress has been made in the development of both methods that are currently considered as ex...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
1354) FAO launches radio training programmes to adapt to COVID-19 restraints
In September 2020, FAO launched a radio training initiative airing various episodes across eight Somali radio stations. The ongoing radio programmes are divided into different series with 30 episodes in total, offering information on good agricultural practices, livestock, fisheries and nutrition, and...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
1355) Creating incentive structures from the ground in the Philippines
This example from the Philippines demonstrates how agro-biodiversity can be maintained and increased through benefit-sharing mechanisms as participatory plant breeding, distribution of traditional varieties and related information, and conservation activities.
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2005