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1366) Global Atlas of Crop Wild Relatives
The Crop Wild Relative Global Atlas provides information on species distribution and collection priorities for the wild relatives of globally important major and minor food crops.
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
1367) GRIN Taxonomy
The National Plant Germplasm System of the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture maintains a computer database, the Germplasm Resources Information Network, GRIN-Global, for the management of and as a source of information on its 599,842 germplasm accessions. The taxonomic portion...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
1368) Sustainable agri-food value chains. How policies can support the shift towards more resilient food systems
This is the fifth document in a series of case studies by member countries of the Thematic Working Group on Agriculture, Food Security and Land Use (TWG), under the NDC-Partnership. The aim is to present what countries are doing to tackle climate change and implement their Nationally Determined Contributions...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
1369) The State of Food and Agriculture 2014: Innovation in family farming
This pubblication analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. It argues that family farms must be supported to innovate in ways that promote sustainable intensification of production and improvements in rural livelihoods....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
1370) Seeds for Needs' project in India
This video describes the use of a crowdsourcing approach to varietal selection in India in which farmers undergo on-farm trials of a small number of pre-selected varieties and rank them according to different performance characteristics. Using this approach, farmers have gained access to varieties that...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2013