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1521) The crowdsourcing approach
Bioversity International's 'Seeds for Needs' initiative works with farmers to research how agricultural biodiversity can help minimize the risks associated with climate change. The concept is simple – if farmers have better information and access to a wide range of varieties, they are more able to...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2015
1522) A Field Manual for Seed Collectors
This Manual of Seed Collecting is designed to provide general guidelines regarding seed collecting practice and to provide specific practical details relevant to the collection of seed for the Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP). It is written with the understanding that different institutions and projects...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
1523) Enhancing Crop Genepool Use: Capturing Wild Relative and Landrace Diversity for Crop Improvement
Maintaining food security in the face of human population increase and climate change is one of the critical challenges facing us in the 21st Century. Utilisation of the full range of agrobiodiversity will be a necessary tool in addressing this challenge. In this book a team of international contributors...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2006
1524) Harlan and de Wet Crop Wild Relative Inventory
The Harlan and de Wet Crop Wild Relative Inventory uses both genepool concepts as well as documentation of CWR species that have been successfully used in breeding in the past to provide a priority list of 1400 CWR species, along with key ancillary data such as their regional and national occurrence,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
1525) Seed Systems Smallholder Farmers Use
Seed can be an important entry point for promoting productivity, nutrition and resilience among smallholder farmers. While investments have primarily focused on strengthening the formal sector, this article documents the degree to which the informal sector remains the core for seed acquisition, especially...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2016