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536) Landrace conservation strategy for the United Kingdom

The extent of loss of crop genetic diversity associated with the loss of landraces is difficult to quantify accurately, but we do know that both worldwide and in Europe there has been a massive loss of named landrace varieties that is thought to equate to a significant loss of crop genetic diversity....

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: Europe

Publication year: N/A

537) Contributions of biodiversity to the sustainable intensification of food production – Thematic Study for The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture

In this study, the roles of biodiversity in sustainable food production are considered, assessing how these roles can be measured, the current state of knowledge and opportunities for intervention. In the case of annual crops, required interventions include breeding and selecting crops for more positive...

Subject: Crop diversity

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2019

538) Towards better metrics and policymaking for seed system development: Insights from Asia's seed industry

Since the 1980s, many developing countries have introduced policies to promote seed industry growth and improve the delivery of modern science to farmers, often with a long-term goal of increasing agricultural productivity in smallholder farming systems. Public, private, and civil society actors involved...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Asia

Publication year: 2016

539) The Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA)

The Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (CENESTA) is a not-for-profit civil society organisation that struggles to re-empower indigenous peoples and local communities in Iran and beyond (including indigenous nomadic tribes and coastal and marine areas) by promoting and supporting appropriate...

Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers

Regions: Near East

Publication year: N/A

540) Who controls the seeds, controls life: an approach to transgenics in Colombia

The article explains how, from the Western perspective, seeds have been conceived as an “object” that can be modified in a laboratory and marketed in the global agro-industry market, generating a set of reflections on the “promises” of eradicate hunger in the world through the massive production...