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676) Why global food systems should resemble those of the Indigenous Peoples
Many Indigenous territories are located in some of the world’s most environmentally diverse regions. Although Indigenous lands account for less than 22 percent of the world’s terrestrial area, studies indicate they are home to over 80 percent of all biodiversity. And while the rest of the world wrestles...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
677) Women-Led Community Seed Bank
The women farmers have established the seed bank cum grain storages by practicing climate resilient sustainable agriculture system. The POWER Project of ActionAid Bangladesh is supporting them. Traditionally, the farmers have been producing, preserving and exchanging seeds since a long time.
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2021
678) Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops
Over one hundred scientists from 25 countries on four continents took part in a six-year quest to collect the wild plant species that scientists and breeders can use to make our crops more productive in increasingly challenging climates. The researchers secured 4,644 seed samples of 371 crop wild relatives—many...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
679) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers - Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
This book represents the proceedings of the first International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers which FAO organized at its headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 21–23 November 2018. FAO convened the symposium to provide inspiration for innovation actors and decision makers to unlock...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
680) Modeling of crop wild relative species identifies areas globally for in situ conservation
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are the wild cousins of cultivated crops and a vast resource of genetic diversity for breeding new, higher yielding, climate change tolerant crop varieties, but they are under-conserved (particularly in situ), largely unavailable and therefore underutilized. This study analyses...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019