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716) Adaptive governance for the coexistence of crop diversity management systems - COEX
CoEx was a multidisciplinary project bringing together stakeholders from the scientific world and civil society (smallholder organizations, NGOs) to study the seed system. The project objectives were: Understand the gap between regulations and laws on seeds and genetic resources, and the reality on the...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A
717) Seed multiplication by resource-limited farmers: Proceedings of the Latin American Workshop - Goiânia, Brazil, 7–11 April 2003
FAO, through its Seed and Plant Genetics Resources Service, is conducting a series of expert consultations, workshops, and conferences to generate ideas, develop methodologies and facilitate initiatives aimed at strengthening on-farm seed multiplication (the informal seed system), thereby addressing...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2003
718) Broadening the Base, Narrowing the Task: Prioritizing Crop Wild Relative Taxa for Conservation Action
A surge in conservation planning for crop wild relatives since the turn of the century has resulted in a wide range of different crop wild relative prioritization criteria and methods being applied. This paper reviews those criteria and methods and presents a harmonized, logical, and pragmatic means...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
719) Improving women farmers’ access to quality seeds in Uganda
Small-scale farmers, particularly women, face challenges that affect their seed sovereignty such as lack of access to quality seed, the influx of fake seeds in the markets, and increasing pressure from multinational corporations. With all these challenges it is difficult to increase production and productivity...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
720) Cactus (Opuntia spp.) as forage
In recent years there has been increased interest in Opuntia species for the important role they play – and are likely to play – in the success of sustainable agricultural systems in marginal areas of arid and semiarid zones. Opuntias are well-adapted to arid zones characterized by droughty conditions,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species; Grains/Cereals/Pulses/Root crops/Fruits
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2001