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646) Using Agricultural Innovation to Protect Biodiversity
Briefing which discussed how sustainable food production can be leveraged to tackle biodiversity loss, climate change, and land degradation including desertification.
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2024
647) Community seed banks as seed producers Cases from India, Nepal, Uganda and Zimbabwe
Community-based seed producers are a relatively under-researched and under-documented category of seed producers, but have the potential to cater to the diverse seed needs and interests of smallholder farmers. This working paper presents a number of such community-seed producers, with a focus on community...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia; Africa
Publication year: 2020
648) Planning Plant Conservation
Conservation planning involves selecting target taxa, establishing the geographic and taxonomic breadth of the conservation actions and producing some form of strategy or action plan for implementation. The selection of which taxon or taxa to conserve should be based on a series of measurable criteria...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
649) Participatory Plant Breeding and the Evolution of Landraces: A Case Study in the Organic Farms of the Collserola Natural Park
Although consumers appreciate the genetic diversity among tomato landraces, traditional varieties have been displaced from commercial agriculture. Their cultivation through organic farming in natural parks can contribute to their resurgence. With this aim, this study developed a participatory plant breeding...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2019
650) Webinar: The FAO Framework for Action on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
This webinar, co-organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, introduced the Framework for Action on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture approved by the FAO Council in December of last year. The webinar provided...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2022