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Genebanks conserve key resources for handling current and future challenges to food production and security. The role of genebanks has evolved from primarily serving plant breeders to include long-term biodiversity conservation and distribution to a wider user community. International policy frameworks...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018
This publication provides concrete examples of how genetic resources can be used to improve the livelihoods of local communities by increasing incomes, promoting food security, and contributing to biodiversity conservation in 24 countries around the world. The publication also describes policy and legislative...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
The main objective of the “Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change” project is to collect and protect the genetic diversity of a portfolio of plants with the characteristics required for adapting the world's most important food crops to climate change. The initiative also aims to make available this...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
The main objective of the“Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change” project is to collect and protect the genetic diversity of a portfolio of plants with the characteristics required for adapting the world's most important food crops to climate change. The initiative also aims to make available this...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
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