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706) Bottlenecks in the PGRFA use system: stakeholders’ perspectives
An essential component of efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change on crop production and food security is the production of new varieties of crops which can thrive in more extreme, changeable and uncertain environmental conditions. Humankind is therefore dependent on the continual availability...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
707) Seed Libraries
A seed library is a place where community members can get seeds for free or for a nominal fee and is run for the public benefit. Many seed libraries are open in public libraries and community centers. For some communities, getting folks to garden and grow some of their own food is the focus. For other...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: North America
Publication year: N/A
708) CROPDIVA Project
CROPDIVA aim is to enhance European agrobiodiversity. The goal of this Horizon 2020 project is to put six underused arable crops back in the fields: oats, hull-less barley for human consumption, triticale, buckwheat, faba beans and lupins. Twenty seven European partners are joining forces to enhance...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: N/A
709) Farmers and Plant Breeding Current Approaches and Perspectives
This book presents the history of, and current approaches to, farmer-breeder collaboration in plant breeding, situating this work in the context of sustainable food systems, as well as national and international policy and law regimes. Plant breeding is essential to food production, climate-change adaptation...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global; Africa; Asia; North America
Publication year: 2019
710) The Role of AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center in vegetable value chain
AVRDC -The World Vegetable Center is the principal international agricultural research center dedicated to vegetable research and development. Using an interdisciplinary approach, AVRDC works with its partners in various countries to develop and disseminate technologies and information on vegetable value...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2010