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1416) Improving women farmers’ access to quality seeds in Uganda
Small-scale farmers, particularly women, face challenges that affect their seed sovereignty such as lack of access to quality seed, the influx of fake seeds in the markets, and increasing pressure from multinational corporations. With all these challenges it is difficult to increase production and productivity...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1417) Swiss National Database - Conservation of plant genetic resources
The Swistzerland’s National Database of Plant Genetic Resources resources aims to preserve the richness of species of plants cultivated for food and agriculture, to inventory old varieties, and to describe and promote their sustainable use. Information on the characteristics of old varieties is documented...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe
Publication year: N/A
1418) Facilitators' Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding. Module : Plot Design for Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) Research Plots
In this module we will prepare the Farmer Field School (FFS) site and the plots of land on which we will do the fieldwork and testing of lines for the next season. The way we design the plots and allocate each of the lines that we sow should minimize the risk of distortion of the experimental results,...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018
1419) The tricot citizen science approach applied to on-farm variety evaluation: methodological progress and perspectives
Tricot (triadic comparisons of technologies) is a citizen science approach for testing technology options in their use environments, which is being applied to on-farm testing of crop varieties. Over the last years, important progress has been made on the tricot methodology of which an overview is given....
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
1420) SEEDS TOOLKIT Module 3: Seed quality assurance
Quality seed is the fuel for agricultural development, and availability of quality seeds of a wide range of adapted crop varieties is the key to attaining food security. Seed produced under a certification and quality control system is superior in terms of improvedvariety, varietal purity, freedom from...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018