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1451) IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, Version 3.1, Second edition
The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. The general aim of the system is to provide an explicit, objective framework for the classification of the broadest range of species according...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2012
1452) International year of Millets 2023
The global food system faces many complex challenges, including hunger, malnutrition, an ever-growing global population, limited natural resources and a changing climate. A solution is to enhance sustainable crop production, resilient value chains and consumer access to affordable and varied diets....
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2023
1453) Participatory Plant Breeding research: Oppurtunities and challenges for the international crop improvement system
This paper describes the current state of international plant breeding research and explains why the centralized global approach to germplasm improvement that was so successful in the past is today being transformed by the incorporation of decentralized local breeding methods designed to better incorporate...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2004
1454) Germplasm rescue and repatriation
Due to many factors such as increased access and availability of modern varieties, change in market preferences, natural calamities, low productivity of native landraces and climate change, crop landraces are endangered. To prevent the further loss of precious landraces conserved by farmers in different...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2020
1455) Plant breeding and diversity: A troubled relationship?
Plant breeding collects, induces and rearranges genetic diversity followed by selection. Breeding may contribute to diversity in farmers’ fields or significantly reduce it. History has numerous examples of both. This paper intends to shed some light on the questions: how will current developments in...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018