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741) IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, Version 3.1, Second edition
The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. The general aim of the system is to provide an explicit, objective framework for the classification of the broadest range of species according...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2012
742) Participatory Plant Breeding research: Oppurtunities and challenges for the international crop improvement system
This paper describes the current state of international plant breeding research and explains why the centralized global approach to germplasm improvement that was so successful in the past is today being transformed by the incorporation of decentralized local breeding methods designed to better incorporate...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2004
743) Plant breeding and diversity: A troubled relationship?
Plant breeding collects, induces and rearranges genetic diversity followed by selection. Breeding may contribute to diversity in farmers’ fields or significantly reduce it. History has numerous examples of both. This paper intends to shed some light on the questions: how will current developments in...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018
744) Community Seed Banks: Sharing Experiences from North and South
The number of community seed banks is rapidly increasing, in response to the growing demand for greater diversity of crop genetic resources among farmers and gardeners around the world. Two major studies made by DIVERSIFOOD shed light on this development, enabling a closer look at the differing approaches,...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Europe; Asia; Africa
Publication year: 2018
745) Seed Guardians - How families in Brazil are increasing biodiversity with help from the past
Brazil used to be a country rich in biodiversity, but in the semi-arid North East of the country, extensive livestock raising, slash and burn agriculture and uncontrolled demand for wood fuel have led to widespread environmental degradation of its unique Caatinga biodiversity.This video depicts the story...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2021