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Podcast series facilitating a dialogue on different expert perspectives of how seeds are accessed, developed, sold and used.
Subject: Seed system
Regions:
Publication year: 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB). Seventy-six breeders were randomly selected from among 95 breeders who were working at the Seed and Plant Improvement Institute, Karaj, Iran. Data were collected by a questionnaire as...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Near East
Publication year: 2017
Information systems and the data they hold are central to the conservation and use of crop diversity. The Genebank Resources Hub for plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) collects general information and technical data, including documents and reports, from the various Crop Trust project...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
Although community-level seed-saving initiatives have existed in many countries around the world for about 30 years, they have rarely been the subject of systematic scientific enquiry. Based on a combination of a literature review and field research, this study presents a novel comprehensive conceptual...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2014
Farmers' Rights and access and benefit-sharing (ABS) are important and interlinked issues in the conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity. This chapter aims to assess the current status and policy gaps of implementing farmers' rights and ABS mechanisms with regard to community seed banks...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2018