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111) Agroforestry Heritage Systems as Agrobiodiversity Hotspots. The Case of the Mountain Oases of Tunisia
Traditional agricultural systems are receiving increasing attention at the international level due to their multifunctional role. The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) aims to identify agricultural systems of global importance,...
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
112) Agronomic Evaluation of Bread Wheat Varieties from Participatory Breeding: A Combination of Performance and Robustness
This article reports on a Participatory plant breeding (PPB) program that started on bread wheat in France in 2006 and has achieved a range of outcomes, from the emergence of new organization among actors, to specific experimental designs and statistical methods developed, and to populations varieties...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2020
113) Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a broad alliance of different civil society actors that are part of the struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa. These include: African farmers’ organizations, African NGO networks, specialist African NGOs, consumer movements in...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A
114) Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based solutions that address the global crises of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. They work with local, national, and multinational...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa; Asia; Global; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: N/A
115) Alliance's Colombia genebank hits conservation target with shipment to Svalbard
The CGIAR genebank in Cali, Colombia, reached a conservation milestone in February 2020 with a shipment of safety duplicates of bean accessions to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. By providing 904 bean accessions, the Cali genebank hit a CGIAR target for two back-up copies of 90 percent of the...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020