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471) A review of ten rich underutilised crops in Kenya
This booklet provides an overview of ten crop varieties as selected by the Kenyan Seed Savers Network. Through their effort of documenting and characterising local underutilised seed varieties, the Seed Savers Network delivers a significant contribution to the preservation of plant genetic resources...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
472) A historical appraisal of the tropical forages collection conserved at CIAT
A report on the tropical forage germplasm collection conserved in the CIAT genebank is presented. Emphasis is firstly on the assembling of the collection during 1972‒1993 through about 70 major and minor collecting missions in tropical America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Along with introductions from...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
473) Participatory Breeding for Climate Change-Related Traits
After a review of the effects of climate changes on food security and agricultural production, the chapter relates modern plant breeding, as opposed to farmers’ breeding practiced for millennia, with the decrease of agrobiodiversity. It underlines the contradiction between the unanimous recognition...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2013
474) Genetic diversity and selection signatures in maize landraces compared across 50 years of in situ and ex situ conservation
Genomics-based, longitudinal comparisons between ex situ and in situ agrobiodiversity conservation strategies can contribute to a better understanding of their underlying effects. However, landrace designations, ambiguous common names, and gaps in sampling information complicate the identification of...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2021
475) Introduction to the symposium: seed as a commons—exploring innovative concepts and practices of governing seed and varieties
This Symposium explores how the theory of commons can be used to study, conceptualize and transform governance models for seed and plant varieties to counter ongoing trends towards agrobiodiversity loss and concentration of economic and political power in farming and food systems. Contributions to the...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020