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651) Facilitators' Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding. Module : Diagnostic Stage
The breeding objectives and activities of a Farmer Field School (FFS) season are based on the ‘diagnostic stage’, in which farmers perform a collective diagnosis of their situation and the problems and challenges they encounter in growing their crops and varieties.
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018
652) Participatory Plant Breeding Methods for Organic Cereals
This paper looks at the role of participatory plant breeding (PPB) in organic agriculture and presents a case study of PPB in durum wheat.
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2005
653) Olive Alive – Project
Olive Alive is a LIFE project that proposes a model of olive growing based on respect for nature and the quality of oils obtaines, which helps reverse biodiversity loss and contributes to a better profitability of the olive grove. It is an initiative to increase the profitability of the olive grove by...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: N/A
654) Mapping the Diversity of Maize Races in Mexico
Traditional landraces of maize are cultivated throughout more than one-half of Mexico's cropland. Efforts to organize in situ conservation of this important genetic resource have been limited by the lack of knowledge of regional diversity patterns. Authors used recent and historic collections of maize...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2014
655) A voyage from potato fields in the Andean mountains of Peru
This is the story of a spiritual journey made by Quechua farmers bringing their cherished potato seeds from the Potato Park in Peru to Svalbard, in Norway. It is a voyage from potato fields high in the Andean mountains of Peru to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: a fail-safe seed storage facility built...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean; Europe
Publication year: 2017