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1456) Community Seed Banks: Sharing Experiences from North and South
The number of community seed banks is rapidly increasing, in response to the growing demand for greater diversity of crop genetic resources among farmers and gardeners around the world. Two major studies made by DIVERSIFOOD shed light on this development, enabling a closer look at the differing approaches,...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Europe; Asia; Africa
Publication year: 2018
1457) Seed Guardians - How families in Brazil are increasing biodiversity with help from the past
Brazil used to be a country rich in biodiversity, but in the semi-arid North East of the country, extensive livestock raising, slash and burn agriculture and uncontrolled demand for wood fuel have led to widespread environmental degradation of its unique Caatinga biodiversity.This video depicts the story...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2021
1458) Tricot - video 4: With the final workshops, the tricot research cycle ends
(video 4 of 7) At the end of the tricot project cycle, the farmers receive the results of their trials at a terminal event. The video shows how to organize such a workshop. The triadic comparisons of technologies or 'tricot' methodology has been designed by Bioversity International with the aim of reaching...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2016
1459) Evolutionary Plant Breeding in Cereals – Into a New Era
This paper describes the process of evolutionary plant breeding and options for implementing such a programme. It also reviews the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of this approach.
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2011
1460) Fighting Poverty, Hunger and Malnutrition with Neglected and Underutilized Species: needs, challenges and the way forward
Neglected and underutilized species (NUS) are those to which little attention is paid or which are entirely ignored by agricultural researchers, plant breeders and policymakers. Typically, NUS are not traded as commodities. They are wild or semi-domesticated varieties and non-timber forest species adapted...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2013