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416) Through war, wildfire and pandemic, the world’s seed vaults hold strong
A network of international centers preserves regional plant diversity and makes seeds available to researchers and plant breeders under the conditions of the Plant Treaty, not only to respond to regional disasters but also to develop new varieties that are resilient in the face of challenges such as...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
417) Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Ecological theory suggests that biodiversity has a positive and stabilizing effect on the delivery of ecosystem services. Yet, the impacts of increasing the diversity of cultivated crop species or varieties in agroecosystems are still under scrutiny. The available empirical evidence is scattered in scope,...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
418) Hermetic storage technologies reduce maize pest damage in smallholder farming systems in Mexico
In Mexico, smallholder farmers use a variety of technologies to store their maize grain for several months, which may result in high losses in quantity and quality of grain. This paper evaluates ten grain storage technologies for maize across agroecological zones and reveals that the use of hermetic...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020
419) CERERE Project
The European project “CERERE, CEreal REnaissance in Rural Europe: embedding diversity in organic and low-input food systems” aims at sustaining and promoting innovative approaches emerging in Europe from a multitude of practices adopted to introduce and manage agrobiodiversity in cereal production....
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe
Publication year: N/A
420) Evolution, plant breeding and biodiversity
This paper deals with changes in biodiversity during the course of evolution, plant domestication and plant breeding. It shows than man has had a strong influence on the progressive decrease of biodiversity, unconscious at first and deliberate in modern times. The decrease in biodiversity in the agricultures...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2009