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1571) Conservation of Wild Food Plants and Their Potential for Combatting Food Insecurity in Kenya as Exemplified by the Drylands of Kitui County
Wild food plants are important resources for people living in dry areas of Kenya. A botanical inventory of vascular plants of Kitui county was compiled from specimens collected during field investigations in Kitui county, at the East African herbarium and from literature reporting on plants of Kitui...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
1572) BSF project "Harnessing dryland legume and cereal genetic resources for food and nutrition security and resilient farming systems in Malawi and Zambia"
"Harnessing dryland legume and cereal genetic resources for food and nutrition security and resilient farming systems in Malawi and Zambia" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Fourth Cycle). The project will enhance resilience...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A
1573) A modern breeding project to improve the yield of various crops in Africa
Yield improvement of important African food crops will get a boost with the launch of the Modern Breeding Project, to be implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in collaboration with Bayer. The research will focus on ensuring that cassava, maize, cowpea, banana, yam,...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
1574) Registration Systems for Farmers’ Varieties: Ongoing Policy Dialogues and Experiences from the Field
Over the course of the last few decades, there has been a growing appreciation of farmers’ varieties. Because they increase production stability and resilience, farmers’ varieties sometimes outperform varieties coming from formal breeding programs, especially when cultivated in difficult environments...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
1575) In situ and ex situ diversity analysis of priority crop wild relatives in Norway
This document’s aim is to contribute directly to Norway's national and international commitments to systematic, long‐term conservation of crop wild relatives (CWR) by ensuring both the in situ and ex situ protection and availability of a broad range of CWR genetic diversity within the country.
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2016