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1551) How Can Agrobiodiversity Help Safeguard Sustainable Food Systems?
Agrobiodiversity refers to both domesticated and wild species that contribute to food production. It helps increase the resilience of farmers’ livelihoods, improve people’s diets, manage landscapes more sustainably and safeguard crop breeding efforts into the future. This blog explores why increasing...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
1552) Coming to the Rescue - Payment for Agrobiodiversity Services to Safeguard Crop Varieties in Guatemala
The Payment for Agrobiodiversity Services (PACS) programme, led by Bioversity International (now the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) is helping saving resilient traditional crop varieties in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. This article describes some of the activities implemented by this program....
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020
1553) Key characterization and evaluation descriptors: Methodologies for the assessment of 22 crops
Bioversity International, with the financial support of the Global Crop Diversity Trust has led the development of strategic key sets of characterization and evaluation descriptors for 22 crops included in Annex I of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)....
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2011
1554) Realizing the Promise of Neglected and Underutilized Species
Drawing on the lessons learned from the 3rd International Conference on Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS) in September 2013 in Ghana and other recent initiatives, this policy brief highlights key roles of NUS in addressing five critical development challenges: conservation of agricultural biodiversity;...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
1555) The roles of community seed banks in climate change adaption
Although community level seed-saving initiatives have been around for about 30 years, until recently they have received little attention in the scientific literature on climate change adaptation and plant genetic resources. Based on research experiences from various countries, this article argues that...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017