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1051) Appropriate Seed and Grain Storage Systems for Small-scale Farmers: Key Practices for DRR Implementers
This brief provides practical guidelines on storage practices and methodologies to assist southern African farmers prone to natural hazards, mainly cyclones, droughts and floods. The target audience for this brief includes NGO staff, extension workers, community development leaders and government officials...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2014
1052) Tropical fruit Tree Diversity: Good practices for in situ and on-farm conservation
Farmers have developed a range of agricultural practices to sustainably use and maintain a wide diversity of crop species in many parts of the world. This book documents good practices innovated by farmers and collects key reviews on good practices from global experts, not only from the case study countries...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2016
1053) Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: The case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
It is widely recognized that increasing agricultural production to the levels needed to feed an expanding world population requires sharply increased public investment in research and development and widespread adoption of new technologies, but funding for national and international agricultural research...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2018
1054) DIVERSIFOOD in action | Cultivating Diversity
This video presents two of the many experiments being conducted as part of the European project DIVERSIFOOD, which presents a new idea of agriculture to promote food diversity. In a field near Raddusa, in Sicily, an Italian farmer named Giuseppe Li Rosi is cultivating an evolutionary participatory crop...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2018
1055) Crop wild relatives in the South African development community
The countries of the South African Development Community (SADC) are facing unprecedented challenges related to food security, climate change and poverty reduction. The conservation and sustainable use of crop wild relatives (CWR), which is worth an estimated US$120 billion globally, should be an urgent...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021