1596) Testing Farmers Evolutionary Plant Breeding Strategies for Coping with Climate Change

The programme "Use of genetic diversity and evolutionary plant breeding for enhanced farmer resilience to climate change, sustainable crop productivity and nutrition under rainfed conditions" is a $5.6 million evolutionary plant breeding programme, funded by an IFAD grant of $3.5 million and national...

Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches

Regions: Africa; Asia; Near East

Publication year: 2018

1597) Biodiversity-Based Value Chains: A review of best practices for selected biodiversity-based value chains that promotes pro-poor conservation in the Horn of Africa

There is an increasing interest to develop initiatives that promote the growth of biodiversity-based value chain approaches that utilize biodiversity in and outside conservation areas. This book reviews experiences in developing biodiversity-based value chains that alleviate poverty and conserve biodiversity....

Subject: Crop diversity

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2018

1598) A prioritized crop wild relative inventory to help underpin global food security

The potentially devastating impacts of climate change on biodiversity and food security, together with the growing world population, means taking action to conserve crop wild relative (CWR) diversity is no longer an option—it is an urgent priority. CWR are species closely related to crops, including...

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2013

1599) Cultivated biodiversity for the protection and restoration of ecosystems

Subject: Crop diversity

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2023

1600) FAO radio training initiative supports improving and sustaining food security in rural Somalia

In September 2020, FAO launched a radio training initiative airing various episodes across eight Somali radio stations. The ongoing radio programmes are divided into different series with 30 episodes in total, offering information on good agricultural practices, livestock, fisheries and nutrition, and...

Subject: Training, Capacity Development

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2021