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811) Small Millets - a women-led biodiversity revolution
To profile small millets’ production in India, the authors selected a farmers organization that focuses on the promotion and conservation of local agrobiodiversity, and in particular small millets, a tool to foster women empowerment, food sovereignty and resilience to climatic and economic shocks.
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: N/A
812) In situ and ex situ conservation gap analyses of crop wild relatives from Malawi
The study analysed the conservation gaps of the priority crop wild relatives (CWR) taxa for Malawi in order to contribute to the development of a harmonized conservation strategy that helps secure the priority CWR under in situ and ex situ. The findings of this study will guide formulation of conservation...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
813) Domestication of payments for ecosystem services: New evidence from the Andes
This project has sought to assess i) the potential of agricultural biodiversity-focused PES to serve as a cost-effective and socially equitable domesticated diversity conservation incentive scheme, as well as ii) how economic incentive mechanisms such as PES can be designed to build on and complement...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2015
814) A modern breeding project to improve the yield of various crops in Africa
Yield improvement of important African food crops will get a boost with the launch of the Modern Breeding Project, to be implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in collaboration with Bayer. The research will focus on ensuring that cassava, maize, cowpea, banana, yam,...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
815) In situ and ex situ diversity analysis of priority crop wild relatives in Norway
This document’s aim is to contribute directly to Norway's national and international commitments to systematic, long‐term conservation of crop wild relatives (CWR) by ensuring both the in situ and ex situ protection and availability of a broad range of CWR genetic diversity within the country.
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2016