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851) Genebank Resilience Tested as Pandemic Enters Second Year
CGIAR genebanks manage the largest and most widely used collections of crop diversity in the world. Together, these 11 genebanks conserve more than 700,000 different samples of cereals, grain legumes, forages, roots, tubers and even bananas and trees. The lockdown measures over the past year have had...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
852) Kenya: Farmers Using Community Seed Banks to Fight Climate Change
Members of the Nyando community seed bank had a common trial farm where they grew varieties of beans, sorghum and millet. Although this concept is yet to be adopted in Kenya legally and as a way of life, establishment of community seed banks is a good start towards OSSS. Additionally, two seed fairs...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
853) BSF project "Using modern biotechnologies to sustain food security in Pacific island countries"
While Pacific island countries conserve large collections of plant genetic resources of their principal food crops in the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT) in Fiji, capacity to exploit their full potential is low due to inadequate resources for research and development. Given the absence of...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: South West Pacific
Publication year: N/A
854) A holistic approach to enhance the use of neglected and underutilized species: the case of Andean grains in Bolivia and Peru
The IFAD-NUS project, implemented over the course of a decade in two phases, represents the first UN-supported global effort on neglected and underutilized species (NUS). This initiative, deployed and tested a holistic and innovative value chain framework using multi-stakeholder, participatory, inter-disciplinary,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2014
855) Shining a Brighter Light: Comprehensive Evidence on Adoption and Diffusion of CGIAR-Related Innovations in Ethiopia
In recent decades, the agricultural sector in Ethiopia has seen a sustained period of growth, which is believed to have contributed in turn to economic growth and poverty reduction. This report focused on the success of agricultural innovations in the last 20 years in Ethiopia, in particular those linked...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020