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This brief summarizes the key findings of The African Seed Access Index (TASAI) study conducted to appraise the structure and economic performance of Uganda’s seed sector in 2017. The study evaluates the enabling environment necessary to build a vibrant formal seed sector, focusing on four grain and...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2018
Wild plants are used as food for human populations where people still depend on natural resources to survive. This study aimed at identifying wild plants and edible uses known in four rural communities of the Pantanal-Brazil, estimating the use value and understanding how distance to the urban areas,...
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2015
Well-managed genebanks both safeguard genetic diversity and make it available to breeders. The Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture lay down the procedures for conserving plant genetic resources. These voluntary standards set the benchmark for current scientific and...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2013
ClimMob is an online software for agricultural citizen science, it relies on a citizen science approach called tricot. The idea behind this software is "Instead of a few researchers carrying out complicated field trials, large numbers of farmers or gardeners carry out simple and small trials on their...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
The present list of descriptors for the standardized development of crop wild relative (CWR) checklists and inventories is based on results from a series of international projects that progressively worked to improve information management related to CWR conservation and use. The creation of checklists...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017