1231) Social Process of Adaptation to Environmental Changes: How Eastern African Societies Intervene between Crops and Climate

Studies on climate change can only be conducted on a long time scale, and observing how societies adapt their sowing practices to climate variability is challenging and costly. As an alternative, a space and time substitution design was used, changes in space corresponding to that induced in time by...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2014

1232) SHiNeMaS: a Web Tool Dedicated to Seed Lots History, Phenotyping and Cultural Practices

In 2005, researchers from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, INRAE) started a collaboration with the French farmers’ seed network Réseau Semences Paysannes (RSP) on...

Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches

Regions: Europe

Publication year: 2020

1233) Priority areas for the in situ conservation of crop wild relatives in South Africa

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are wild plant taxa that have broader genetic diversity than crops hence they are an excellent source of genes and traits to improve crops. The potential value of CWR for agriculture and the need to protect these plants in their natural habitats (in situ) have been recognized...

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2019

1234) Cryopreservation of banana genetic material

Subject: Crop diversity; Grains/Cereals/Pulses/Root crops/Fruits; Plant breeding techniques and approaches

Regions: Africa; Asia; Europe; Global; Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2009

1235) The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP)

The Millennium Seed Bank's global network, The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), is one of the largest ex situ plant conservation programme in the world. Their focus is on global plant life faced with the threat of extinction and plants of most use for the future. Working with their network of...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: N/A