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1411) Farmer's Pride webinar: Crop wild relative conservation — adding value to Europe's natural sites
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are wild plant species that provide vital diversity for adapting and improving our crops – particularly in the race to combat the adverse impacts of climate change on agricultural production systems. Due to the unique value of CWR for food security, conserving these species...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global; Europe
Publication year: 2020
1412) Gap analyses of priority wild relatives of food crop in current ex situ and in situ conservation in Indonesia
Conservation programmes are always limited by available resources. Careful planning is therefore required to increase the efficiency of conservation and gap analysis can be used for this purpose. This method was used to assess the representativeness of current ex situ and in situ conservation actions...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2021
1413) Adaptive governance for the coexistence of crop diversity management systems - COEX
CoEx was a multidisciplinary project bringing together stakeholders from the scientific world and civil society (smallholder organizations, NGOs) to study the seed system. The project objectives were: Understand the gap between regulations and laws on seeds and genetic resources, and the reality on the...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A
1414) Seed multiplication by resource-limited farmers: Proceedings of the Latin American Workshop - Goiânia, Brazil, 7–11 April 2003
FAO, through its Seed and Plant Genetics Resources Service, is conducting a series of expert consultations, workshops, and conferences to generate ideas, develop methodologies and facilitate initiatives aimed at strengthening on-farm seed multiplication (the informal seed system), thereby addressing...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2003
1415) Broadening the Base, Narrowing the Task: Prioritizing Crop Wild Relative Taxa for Conservation Action
A surge in conservation planning for crop wild relatives since the turn of the century has resulted in a wide range of different crop wild relative prioritization criteria and methods being applied. This paper reviews those criteria and methods and presents a harmonized, logical, and pragmatic means...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017