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1586) Resetting the table for people and plants: Botanic gardens and research organizations collaborate to address food and agricultural plant blindness
Food and agricultural plants are integral to human well-being. Due to their universal importance, such plants would appear to represent an ideal entryway by which to address plant blindness. However, with limited opportunities for direct contact with agriculture, many people cannot appreciate the flora...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
1587) The Power of Wild Plants in Feeding Humanity: A Meta-Analytic Ethnobotanical Approach in the Catalan Linguistic Area
Wild food plants (WFP) have always been present in our kitchen, although they have not always been given the same importance as crops. The aim of this study was to carry out a meta-analysis of the WFP dataset of the Catalan linguistic area (CLA) and to identify the most quoted plants, and the information...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2021
1588) Financing the conservation of agricultural diversity
The crops and livestock we use must be continuously improved and adapted to changing environmental conditions if we are to ensure food security for the generations to come. The absolute precondition for this is the preservation of agricultural biodiversity and the associated agroecosystems. But for years...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2008
1589) Rescue to Registration: A Case of Bean Landraces from Dolakha, Nepal
Many local crops and landraces are often neglected and underutilized despite of having unique use values and varietal traits. Various on-farm agrobiodiversity management tools and practices have been developed and adopted to identify, conserve and promote local plant genetic resources globally. This...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2020
1590) Moving beyond the dilemma: practices that contribute to the on-farm management of agrobiodiversity
The definition provided by the Convention on Biological Diversity for in situ conservation has caused a dilemma for those involved in agrobiodiversity conservation, as to how to implement this strategy in practical terms. A diversity of organizations has been engaged in efforts referred to as ‘on-farm...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe; Africa; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2012