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636) Implementing access and benefit sharing in eight countries
Since 2012, national teams in eight countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have been identifying options for policy, legal and administrative mechanisms for the implementation of the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing (MLS) for plant genetic resources. This article summarises if and...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia; Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2016
637) Improving farmers’ access to quality seed potato
The sub-regional workshop on improving farmers’ access to quality seed potato was organized in 2015 in Rwanda as part of the project "Strengthening linkages between small actors and buyers in the roots and tubers sector in Africa", an EU-funded project being implemented by FAO in seven countries. The...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2016
638) Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources in Brazil
Brazil is a continental dimension country that is the world’s fifth largest country by area and has a broadly diversified climate. For these reasons, Brazil is a megadiverse country and is extremely rich in plants, animals, and microorganisms, which provide conditions to cultivate a diversity of crops,...
Subject: Crop diversity; Farming Systems
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2024
639) Farmer field school curriculum for the integrated crop management of paddy, oil seed and pulses crops in central dry zone of Myanmar
In this curriculum, integrated pest management (IPM) for these selected crops, paddy, groundnut, sesame, green gram and chickpea will be briefly outlined. The general concept of IPM will be the same for these crops although the insect pests, diseases and weeds may differ from one crop to another. The...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2022
640) Threats, drivers and conservation imperative of agrobiodiversity
Agrobiodiversity underpins food, nutrition and livelihood security, ecosystem and environmental health, and climate change resilience but it is under threat of extinction. This paper highlights threats of agrobiodiversity, its drivers and conservation imperatives. Review shows prior to the green revolution,...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020