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696) Networking agrobiodiversity management to foster biodiversity-based agriculture
Biodiversity-based agriculture is the main form of agriculture practiced by smallholder farmers, who produce half the world’s food, especially in the Global South. This form of agriculture relies on planned biodiversity intentionally managed by farmers and on the associated biodiversity that spontaneously...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
697) Participatory Plant Quality Breeding: An Ancient Art Revisited by Knowledge Sharing. The Portuguese Experience.
This book chapter introduces the rationale for and advantages of participatory plant breeding (PPB) and presents a case study of PPB in maize in Portugal. It also describes an extension of the maize PPB programme using molecular data to increase the effectiveness of selection for quality traits. In addition,...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2013
698) Role of Indigenous and local knowledge in seasonal forecasts and climate adaptation: A case study of smallholder farmers in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
Accessible, reliable and diverse sources of climate information are needed to inform climate change adaptation at all levels of society, particularly for vulnerable sectors such as smallholder farming. Globally, many smallholder farmers use Indigenous knowledge (IK) and local knowledge (LK) to forecast...
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2023
699) The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food-legumegenetic resources for European agrofood systems
Food legumes are crucial for all agriculture-related societal challenges, including climate change mitigation, agrobiodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, food security and human health. The transition to plant-based diets, largely based on food legumes, could present major opportunities...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2021
700) Seed bank design: cold rooms for seed storage
Orthodox seed collections should be maintained at cool temperatures, once they have been dried and packaged. Seed longevity increases as temperature is lowered (storage life approximately doubles for each 5 oC reduction in storage temperature). Taking into account seed longevity, cost, safety and other...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014