466) Safeguarding and using Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity : Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit April 2021

Fruit and vegetable species and varieties, their wild relatives, and pollinators and other associated organisms underpin diverse food production systems and contribute to worldwide health and nutrition. This biodiversity, however, is threatened, remains poorly conserved, and is largely undocumented....

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2021

467) Presentation. Seed systems in the light of changing standards

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2022

468) Diversity analysis of 80,000 wheat accessions reveals consequences and opportunities of selection footprints

An international research team, including crop scientists from NIAB, genetically characterised nearly 80,000 samples of wheat from the germplasm banks of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). The...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2020

469) Food Hero - Sanja Mikić

Video - Sanja Mikić is a researcher at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Serbia. She leads the FAO International Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund project in the country and she is responsible for collecting and researching local varieties of grain and cereals found in farmers’ fields, and...

Subject: Crop diversity

Regions: Europe

Publication year: 2022

470) Ethiopia: Farmers multiply indigenous seeds to achieve food security

Smallholder farmers from the Adere village in Ethiopia’s Oromia Region are working in collaboration with the NGO EOSA to restore the local seeds that were lost years ago. This story provides the insights of those farmers. 

Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2018