Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Diversifying the Sourcing and Deploying Methods to Enhance the Crop Diversity

This brief presents several methods that can be used to source and deploy new crop diversity: Climate Analogue Tool (CAT) for sourcing diversity; Participatory seed exchange (PSE); Diversity blocks; Participatory varietal selection (PVS); Informal research and development (IRD); and Diversity kit. 
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectCrop diversity
PublisherAlliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Publication year2020
RegionsGlobal
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/109654/diversifying.pdf
KeywordsSeed management; Plant breeding; Best practices approaches and techniques
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