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This Descriptor list consists of an initial minimum set of characterization and evaluation descriptors for Strychnos cocculoides. This strategic set aims at facilitating access to and utilization of this African indigenous fruit tree. It does not exclude the addition of other descriptors at a later date....
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global; Africa
Publication year: 2021
The concept of Farmers’ Rights recognized the role of farmers as custodians of biodiversity and helped to draw attention to the need to preserve practices that are essential for sustainable agriculture. This paper examines one particular aspect of such rights, perhaps the most controversial. It deals...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
An ex post analysis of the impact of research projects related to Participatory Breeding (PB) of sorghum in Burkina Faso was carried out in 2015 and 2016 using the “Impress” method developed by CIRAD. The sorghum PB approach emerged in Burkina Faso in the late 1990s as a response to the very low...
Subject: Grains/Cereals/Pulses/Root crops/Fruits; Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
The Atlas provides detailed information on 105 species or subspecies of wild Guatemalan plants that are related to crops, including their description, distribution, diversity and conservation status. The species are organized into genepools corresponding to the 29 crops that were chosen for this study...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: N/A
Different communities have various types of edible plants at their nearby ecology from which they process their traditional foods that make the basis of diversified diets for food and nutrition security. Exploration of various ethnic traditional foods knowledge will have an immense contribution for preservation...
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020