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Increasing diversity in cereal cropping implies changes and fosters innovation in agronomy, processing and marketing and impacts on how cereals are produced and consumed. Many alternative cereals (such as ancient wheats) and genetic structures are well suited to low input environments. The species,...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2020
It is widely recognized that increasing agricultural production to the levels needed to feed an expanding world population requires sharply increased public investment in research and development and widespread adoption of new technologies, but funding for national and international agricultural research...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2018
The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), New Delhi is the nodal organization in India for the management of plant genetic resources (PGR). Since, its inception in 1976, efforts have been made for the collection and conservation of plant genetic resources including wild relatives. However,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2005
Agrobiodiversity underpins nearly everything we eat and drink, yet few people understand what it is or how the diversity of crops and livestock contribute to what we find on our plates. To strengthen this connection, "Food Forever" developed a micro-video series which highlights the importance of crop...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
This video presents two of the many experiments being conducted as part of the European project DIVERSIFOOD, which presents a new idea of agriculture to promote food diversity. In a field near Raddusa, in Sicily, an Italian farmer named Giuseppe Li Rosi is cultivating an evolutionary participatory crop...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2018