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386) Traditional Crop Diversity and its Conservation on-Farm for Sustainable Agricultural Production in Kumaon Himalaya of Uttaranchal State: A Case Study
Farming communities in traditional agroecosystems have been playing an important role in conserving agricultural diversity. They are not only the custodians but also managers of the crop diversity and maintain the dynamic processes of crop evolution and adaptation, the key elements of sustainable agricultural...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2007
387) Resilient seed systems for climate-change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-regionn: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019.
Especially in developing countries, farmers face unprecedented climate-change challenges, where their current seed systems do not adequately serve their needs. Despite millennia-long processes of farmer- sections, relatively few locally-adapted varieties or cultivars are available to farmers. Bioversity...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
388) If Biodiversity lives, the Planet lives – Slow Food's Position Paper on Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the diversity of all life, from individual genes to species up to the most complex levels, ecosystems. Without a variety of living forms, life itself would disappear, because it would lose the capacity to adapt to changes. Slow Food’s work is focused on the biodiversity that contributes...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
389) Facilitator’s Guide: Community Managed Seed Security (CMSS) model
The CMSS model is a participatory farmer-led approach for systematically planning and executing interventions towards promoting farmers’ seed security and seed sovereignty. The model consolidates the existing good seed security practices scattered across the PELUM Uganda network into a comprehensive...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2016
390) Effects of climate change on the distribution of crop wild relatives in the Netherlands in relation to conservation status and ecotope variation
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are wild plant taxa that are genetically related to a cultivated species and are considered rich sources of useful traits for crop improvement. CWR are generally underrepresented in genebanks, while their survival in nature is not guaranteed. Inventories and risk analyses are...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2020