1436) Maize Open-Pollinated Populations Physiological Improvement: Validating Tools for Drought Response Participatory Selection

Participatory selection—exploiting specific adaptation traits to target environments—helps to guarantees yield stability in a changing climate, in particular under low-input or organic production. The purpose of the present study was to identify reliable, low-cost, fast and easy-to-use tools to complement...

Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches

Regions: Europe

Publication year: 2019

1437) Community-based Mechanisms for Promoting Access and Benefit Sharing

In the last 2 decades, Nepal has piloted and promoted some of the good practices for community biodiversity management (CBM) approaches to promote access and exchange of seeds and planting materials as well as facilitate benefit sharing to ensure food and nutrition security of households in Nepal. The...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Asia

Publication year: 2020

1438) Baseline tool on nutrition and local food plants

This document aims at providing a guideline for the implementation of a baseline survey to capture information on nutrition and local food plants, which corresponds to the work on nutrition (third Pillar) of the “Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security” Program (SD=HS). SD=HS is a global program, currently...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2019

1439) Podcast - Peasant biodiversity #2 - Bringing biodiversity to life

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: Africa; Global

Publication year: 2022

1440) Managing Potato Biodiversity to Cope with Frost Risk in the High Andes: A Modeling Perspective

Austral summer frosts in the Andean highlands are ubiquitous throughout the crop cycle, causing yield losses. In spite of the existing warming trend, climate change models forecast high variability, including freezing temperatures. As the potato center of origin, the region has a rich biodiversity which...

Subject: Crop diversity

Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2014