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1496) De Novo Domestication: An Alternative Route toward New Crops for the Future
Recent technological advances have raised the possibility of de novo domestication of wild plants as a viable solution for designing ideal crops while maintaining food security and a more sustainable low-input agriculture. Here the authors discuss how the discovery of multiple key domestication genes...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
1497) African Seed Enterprises Sowing the Seeds of Food Security
FAO and AfricaRice joined efforts to document, throughout Africa, success stories of small and medium-sized seed enterprises dealing with non-hybrid food crops and identify the factors behind their success. The cases presented in this book provide an overview of the current status of the African seed...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2011
1498) Evolutionary Plant Breeding in Cereals - Into a New Era
In evolutionary plant breeding, crop populations with a high level of genetic diversity are subjected to the forces of natural selection. In a cycle of sowing and re-sowing seed from the plant population year after year, those plants favored under prevailing growing conditions are expected to contribute...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2011
1499) Asociación ANDES: from local potato farmers to global strategies for protecting crop diversity and Indigenous rights
As part of our series looking at how the people and organisations working with IIED are successfully creating change, we profile Asociación ANDES, a Peruvian NGO that combines local-level support for Andean potato farming communities with international action on protecting Indigenous Peoples and biodiversity....
Subject: Grains/Cereals/Pulses/Root crops/Fruits; Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: N/A
1500) SEEDS TOOLKIT Module 5: Seed marketing
To mainstream marketing in the seed industry and achieve successful results in developing countries is not easy. The marketing of seeds is unique, a living product is involved, a product that must still be viable when it reaches farmers for planting. For effective marketing – especially in small-scale...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018