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1646) Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity
Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture. While alarms regarding evident declines in crop diversity have been raised for over a century, the magnitude, trajectory, drivers and significance of these losses remain insufficiently understood. Authors outline...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
1647) Diversifying Food and Diets : Using agricultural biodiversity to improve nutrition and health
Agricultural biodiversity is important for food and nutritional security, as a safeguard against hunger, a source of nutrients for improved dietary diversity and quality, and strengthening local food systems and environmental sustainability. This book explores the current state of knowledge on the role...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa; Asia; Global; Latin America and the Caribbean; South West Pacific
Publication year: 2013
1648) Kenya: Farmers Using Community Seed Banks to Fight Climate Change
Members of the Nyando community seed bank had a common trial farm where they grew varieties of beans, sorghum and millet. Although this concept is yet to be adopted in Kenya legally and as a way of life, establishment of community seed banks is a good start towards OSSS. Additionally, two seed fairs...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
1649) How to Discover Traditional Varieties and Shape in a National Germplasm Collection: The Case of Finnish Seed Born Apples (Malus × domestica Borkh.)
Cultivated apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) is a major crop of economic importance, both globally and regionally. It is currently, and was also in the past, the main commercial fruit in the northern European countries. In Finland, apple trees are grown on the frontier of their northern growing limits....
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2019
1650) BSF project "Using modern biotechnologies to sustain food security in Pacific island countries"
While Pacific island countries conserve large collections of plant genetic resources of their principal food crops in the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT) in Fiji, capacity to exploit their full potential is low due to inadequate resources for research and development. Given the absence of...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: South West Pacific
Publication year: N/A