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441) The Inuit and their Indigenous Foods
In recent decades Indigenous Peoples globally have experienced rapid and dramatic shifts in lifestyle that are unprecedented in history. Moving away from their own self-sustaining, local food systems into industrially derived food supplies, these changes have adverse effects on dietary quality and health....
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: North America
Publication year: 2019
442) China’s crop wild relatives: Diversity for agriculture and food security
The potentially devastating impacts of climate change on crop production and food security are now widely acknowledged. An important component of efforts to mitigate these impacts is the production of new varieties of crops which will be able to thrive in more extreme and changeable environmental conditions....
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2015
443) The Importance of the Farmers' Seed Systems in a Functional National Seed Sector
The farmers' systems of seed supply and crop development form by far the most important source of seed in most farming systems of the world. Despite the efforts of large seed programmes to replace the farmers' seed systems for a system in which farmers use seed as an external input, the major part of...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2002
444) Farmers' Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World
This book defines the dimensions of crop diversity and questions surrounding it. Understanding the nature of crop diversity and its fate in the modern world is an international scientific enterprise that draws scientists from many different disciplines—archaeology, geography, botany, genetics, anthropology,...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2004
445) Farmer seed systems: A critical contribution to food sovereignty and farmers’ rights
Farmer seed systems are a critical contribution to food sovereignty and farmers’ rights. Farmers know that good food comes from good seeds. However, farmers’ varieties have become increasingly vulnerable due to climate change, loss of small farms, market pressures, and seed privatization. As a result,...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019