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606) A manifesto to ensure a voice for farmers in Uganda
This good practice fact sheet describes an initiative to canvas the views and demands of Uganda’s smallholder farmers on measures required to boost the country’s agricultural performance as a driver of both the national economy and for raising incomes among agricultural value chain players. The creation...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
607) Rapid breeding and varietal replacement are critical to adaptation of cropping systems in the developing world to climate change
Plant breeding is a key mechanism for adaptation of cropping systems to climate change. Much discussion of breeding for climate change focuses on genes with large effects on heat and drought tolerance, but phenology and stress tolerance are highly polygenic. Adaptation will therefore mainly result from...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
608) Multilevel Agrobiodiversity and Conservation of Andean Potatoes in Central Peru
Botanical species and morphological and genetic diversity represent different yet linked units of conservation. These features, and their spatial distribution in the central Peruvian Andean highlands of Huancavelica, were used as a basis for characterizing and quantifying potato agrobiodiversity at different...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2010
609) Strengthening Seed Systems and Farmers' Rights for Improving Food & Nutrition Security in South Asia
Access to improved seeds to the smallholder farmers in the rural areas is intertwining and enduring challenge in the developing economies. Lack of access to improved quality seeds makes the agriculture system less productive and competitive making the rural people more vulnerable, marginalized, and food...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2020
610) Over 30,000 Seed Samples from Seven Genebanks Secured in Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Despite the ongoing pandemic, the year’s second deposit is the largest since the major deposit in February 2020, which celebrated construction upgrades to the Seed Vault. This time, 85 boxes containing 30,410 seed samples were sent for security conservation at Svalbard. Seven genebanks from five continents...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2021