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1491) Village Level Gene Seed Grain Bank An Initiative to Promote Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security
Traditionally, rice was being grown on upland, medium land, lowland, crops like finger millet (Eleucine coracana), little millet (Panicum miliaceum), foxtail millet (Setaria italica), Niger (Guizotia abyssinica), pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) and horse gram (Dolichos uniflorus) were cultivated in donger...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2016
1492) COVID-19 and Food Systems: Rebuilding for Resilience : Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit May 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, international supply chains and global food systems continued to feed most of the world, but with varying levels of damage and disruption, and with impacts on food security being felt most acutely by the poor. Worryingly, the pandemic has exposed substantial fragility of...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
1493) Conserving landraces and improving livelihoods: how to assess the success of on-farm conservation projects?
Smallholder farmers who grow diverse landraces in centres of crop diversity contribute to sustaining the capacity of agricultural and food systems to adapt to change by maintaining crop evolution in their fields today, thus enabling humanity to continue to have the broad genetic variation needed to adapt...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
1494) From Genebanks to Farmers: A study of approaches to introduce genebank material to farmers' seed systems
This report reviews strategies, methodologies and projects that exist to facilitate direct access to gene bank material for farmers. Based on a literature review and survey, as well as interviews and data collection from key actors in conservation and development oriented seed system work, the authors...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
1495) Landrace hotspots identification
Based on the available data from 14 European countries, this report identifies 100 landrace diversity hotspots for potential inclusion in a European network for in situ conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources.
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2020