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1461) Participatory Varietal Selection, Participatory Plant Breeding, and Varietal Change
This paper presents a review of participatory varietal selection (PVS) and participatory plant breeding (PPB), highlighting the important differences between them. It provides a number of references to the early work in this area. The review is organized as follows: (1) rationale, (2) the recent development...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2006
1462) Toward an Evolved Concept of Landrace
The term “landrace” has generally been defined as a cultivated, genetically heterogeneous variety that has evolved in a certain ecogeographical area and is therefore adapted to the edaphic and climatic conditions and to its traditional management and uses. Despite being considered by many to be inalterable,...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
1463) Crop Wild Relatives - a Key Asset for Sustainable Agriculture
Ehsan Dulloo (Conservation and Availability Programme Leader at Bioversity International) and Nigel Maxted (Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and PGR Secure Project Coordinator) explain in this video why crop wild relatives are important and how monitoring, conserving and using them...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
1464) Scaling community seedbanks and farmer seed enterprises in East and Southern Africa: Workshop Highlights, 2-4 October 2019, Entebbe, Uganda
The Scaling Community Seed Banks and Farmer Seed Enterprises in East and Southern Africa workshop was held in Entebbe, Uganda on October 2019, to share experiences about community seed bank management and to develop national pilot scaling proposals. Participants from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
1465) Minor millets as a central element for sustainably enhanced incomes, empowerment, and nutrition in rural India
Minor millets comprise a group of cereal species that are genetically diverse and adapted to a range of marginal growing conditions where major cereals such as wheat, rice, and maize are relatively unsuccessful. Millets require few inputs and withstand severe biotic and abiotic stresses. They are also...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2015