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1371) Wild Food Plants and Trends in Their Use: From Knowledge and Perceptions to Drivers of Change in West Sumatra, Indonesia
Wild food plants (WFPs) are often highly nutritious but under-consumed at the same time. This study aims to document the diversity of WFPs, and assesses perceptions, attitudes, and drivers of change in their consumption among Minangkabau and Mandailing women farmers in West Sumatra.
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2020
1372) Changing knowledge and perceptions of African indigenous vegetables: the role of community-based nutritional outreach
African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) have potential to sustainably address malnutrition, a growing problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Their consumption is however, limited by poor perceptions and lack of awareness of nutritional benefits. There is limited evidence of the effectiveness of community-focused...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2018
1373) Assessment of indigenous knowledge associated with Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) seed selection and the seed quality attributes in Fafen Zone of Somali Region, Ethiopia
Indigenous seed selection practiced in Fafen Zone, Ethiopia has been contributing to enhancement of sorghum genetic resources pool. The contributions of farmers/agro-pastoralists are critical to the conservation, use and enhancement of biodiversity. The results of this research paper indicate that the...
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
1374) Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Global Initiative to Collect, Conserve, and Use Crop Wild Relatives.
The main objective of the“Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change” project is to collect and protect the genetic diversity of a portfolio of plants with the characteristics required for adapting the world's most important food crops to climate change. The initiative also aims to make available this...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
1375) Genome properties of key oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) breeding populations
A good knowledge of the genome properties of the populations makes it possible to optimize breeding methods, in particular genomic selection (GS). In oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq), the world's main source of vegetable oil, this would provide insight into the promising GS results obtained so far....
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2022