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806) The INRAE Biological Resource Center 'BrACySol': a French centre of valuable Brassica, Allium and Solanum genetic resources for breeding
The INRAE Biological Resource Center ‘BrACySol’ belongs to BRC4Plants, the plant network of the French Research Infrastructure of Agronomic Biological Resource Centers (AgroBRC-RARe). It preserves more than 15,000 accessions belonging to different cultivated genera: Brassica (cabbage, turnip, rape...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2025
807) Promoting small seed packs to improve smallholder farmers’ access to quality seed
Smallholder farmers face a number of challenges accessing seed in the traditional size bags. ISSD Ethiopia and partners work on initiatives to promote more accessible small seed packs. The small pack approach allows farmers to get more access to new varieties, and to test them at low risk. A small pack...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
808) Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa: A Conceptual Framework for Creating Coherence Between Practices, Programs, and Policies
This paper is a partial result of the authors' facilitation and coordination of the Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa Project (ISSD Africa), which was implemented by Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR) in collaboration with the Commission of the African Union, in the...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2011
809) Ethnobotanical investigation of wild vegetables used among local communities in northwest Pakistan
Wild vegetables can contribute to people’s food security and health. In northwest Pakistan, almost 40% of the households are classified as food insecure, due to increasing population and natural and man-made catastrophes. There is an urgent need to get an overview of still existing practices of wild...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2019
810) Potential adaptive strategies for 29 sub-Saharan crops under future climate change
Climate change is expected to severely impact cultivated plants and consequently human livelihoods, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Increasing agricultural plant diversity (agrobiodiversity) could overcome this global challenge given more information on the climatic tolerance of crops and their...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019