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1561) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing for Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
The International Workshop on Access and Benefit-Sharing for Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, held in January 2018, addressed one of the key challenges policy-makers face in the development and implementation of access and benefit-sharing measures: the obligation to consider, in the development...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018
1562) Decentralized-Participatory Plant Breeding: An Example of Demand Driven Research
The paper describes a model of participatory plant breeding (PPB) developed by The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas and used successfully in several countries in West Asia and North Africa. Genetic variability is generated by breeders, selection is conducted jointly by...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Near East
Publication year: 2007
1563) Plant breeding with farmers: A technical manual
This manual describes how to organize a participatory plant breeding (PPB) programme in self-pollinated, cross-pollinated and vegetatively propagated crops, how to design the trials, collect, organize and analyse the data, and eventually how to use and share the information generated by a PPB programme....
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2012
1564) Seeds of Confusion: The impact of policies on seed systems
This study deals with the impact different types of regulation have on how farmers access seed. It analyses the current regulatory frameworks in terms of their impact on different seed systems, provides explanations for their often unintended effects and apparent inconsistencies, and proposes some solutions...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2007
1565) Ethnobotanical investigation of wild vegetables used among local communities in northwest Pakistan
Wild vegetables can contribute to people’s food security and health. In northwest Pakistan, almost 40% of the households are classified as food insecure, due to increasing population and natural and man-made catastrophes. There is an urgent need to get an overview of still existing practices of wild...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2019