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1566) Potential adaptive strategies for 29 sub-Saharan crops under future climate change
Climate change is expected to severely impact cultivated plants and consequently human livelihoods, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Increasing agricultural plant diversity (agrobiodiversity) could overcome this global challenge given more information on the climatic tolerance of crops and their...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1567) Community-Based Conservation
This chapter provides a historical perspective on the development of community-based conservation and how approaches are grounded in changes that not only occurred in conservation practice but also in agriculture and rural development. This is achieved by looking at some of the pivotal changes in thinking...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
1568) Small Millets - a women-led biodiversity revolution
To profile small millets’ production in India, the authors selected a farmers organization that focuses on the promotion and conservation of local agrobiodiversity, and in particular small millets, a tool to foster women empowerment, food sovereignty and resilience to climatic and economic shocks.
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: N/A
1569) In situ and ex situ conservation gap analyses of crop wild relatives from Malawi
The study analysed the conservation gaps of the priority crop wild relatives (CWR) taxa for Malawi in order to contribute to the development of a harmonized conservation strategy that helps secure the priority CWR under in situ and ex situ. The findings of this study will guide formulation of conservation...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
1570) Domestication of payments for ecosystem services: New evidence from the Andes
This project has sought to assess i) the potential of agricultural biodiversity-focused PES to serve as a cost-effective and socially equitable domesticated diversity conservation incentive scheme, as well as ii) how economic incentive mechanisms such as PES can be designed to build on and complement...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2015