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926) BSF project "Exchanging and Developing Biodiverse Potato Varieties in Peru, Nepal and Bhutan"
Potato is a major staple across the Peruvian Andes and the high Himalayas–Hindu Kush regions, where and extreme weather events and shifts in pest and disease pressures significantly impact crop production and food security. Moreover, approximately 50% of all children suffer from anemia. This Benefit-sharing...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia
Publication year: N/A
927) Collective Action in Plant Genetic Resources Management
Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources. Agrobiodiversity at the community level is conceptualized as a collective resource requiring the management of varieties, species and their interrelations within a farming-system. In the rice dominated agriculture in the uplands...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2006
928) Why we are storing billions of seeds
In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity -- one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants support human life, he shares the vision of the Millennium Seed Bank, which has stored over 3 billion seeds to date from dwindling yet essential plant species.
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2009
929) Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity Bulletin
Trondheim Conferences on Biodiversity The Eighth Conference Trondheim 31 May – 3 June 2016 Summary of the eighth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity: Food Systems for a Sustainable Future, which focused on the interlinkages between biodiversity and agriculture to develop food systems for a sustainable...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2016
930) Payments for Agrobiodiversity Conservation Services: An Overview of Latin American experiences, Lessons Learned and Upscaling Challenges
Many developing countries face a major challenge today: how to safeguard the biodiversity maintained in the fields of the rural poor - which constitute a national and global public good - whilst meeting those same people's development needs and rights? A solution to this dilemma has thus been sought...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020