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681) Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash: A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book shares impact stories – testimonies from various value chain actors who have been part of the Tropical Legumes projects, over the past twelve years. The projects developed improved cultivars of common bean, cowpea, chickpea and groundnut (but also soya bean and pigeon pea cultivars in its...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
682) In situ Conservation Assessment of Forage and Fodder CWR in Spain Using Phytosociological Associations
Crop wild relatives (CWR) can be used to mitigate the negative effects of climate change on crops, but their genetic diversity conservation has not been properly addressed. This study proposes a new target unit for conservation (Asso-EcoU) based on the occurrence of phytosociological associations in...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2019
683) The Aguaruna and their Indigenous Foods
In recent decades Indigenous Peoples globally have experienced rapid and dramatic shifts in lifestyle that are unprecedented in history. Moving away from their own self-sustaining, local food systems into industrially derived food supplies, these changes have adverse effects on dietary quality and health....
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2019
684) Sugarcane breeding in Reunion: Challenges, achievements and future prospects
All over the world, sugarcane breeding programs are developing new, high-yielding cultivars that are resistant to major diseases to improve the profitability and sustainability of the sugar-energy industries they serve. In Reunion Island, sugarcane genetic improvement efforts began in 1929. Many challenges...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2022
685) Farmers' Rights in Practice : Synthesis of the Case Studies on Sustainable Use of Agrobiodiversity
The project "Good Practices in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Sovereignty: Developing an Inclusive Approach in the Fight against Poverty" provides a collection of case studies of good practices on the sustainable use of PGRFA. This collection is based on the action-research method and was done in 2010...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe; Africa
Publication year: 2013