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1096) China’s crop wild relatives: Diversity for agriculture and food security
The potentially devastating impacts of climate change on crop production and food security are now widely acknowledged. An important component of efforts to mitigate these impacts is the production of new varieties of crops which will be able to thrive in more extreme and changeable environmental conditions....
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2015
1097) The Importance of the Farmers' Seed Systems in a Functional National Seed Sector
The farmers' systems of seed supply and crop development form by far the most important source of seed in most farming systems of the world. Despite the efforts of large seed programmes to replace the farmers' seed systems for a system in which farmers use seed as an external input, the major part of...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2002
1098) Farmers' Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World
This book defines the dimensions of crop diversity and questions surrounding it. Understanding the nature of crop diversity and its fate in the modern world is an international scientific enterprise that draws scientists from many different disciplines—archaeology, geography, botany, genetics, anthropology,...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2004
1099) Uganda Brief 2018 - The African Seed Access Index
This brief summarizes the key findings of The African Seed Access Index (TASAI) study conducted to appraise the structure and economic performance of Uganda’s seed sector in 2017. The study evaluates the enabling environment necessary to build a vibrant formal seed sector, focusing on four grain and...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2018
1100) ClimMob
ClimMob is an online software for agricultural citizen science, it relies on a citizen science approach called tricot. The idea behind this software is "Instead of a few researchers carrying out complicated field trials, large numbers of farmers or gardeners carry out simple and small trials on their...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A