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121) An Heuristic Framework for Identifying Multiple Ways of Supporting the Conservation and Use of Traditional Crop Varieties within the Agricultural Production System
This paper reviews and discusses how studies on (i) on-farm diversity assessment, (ii) access to diversity and information, (iii) extent of use of available materials and information, and (iv) benefits obtained by the farmer or farming community from their use of local crop diversity, are necessary to...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2011
122) An in situ approach to the conservation of temperate cereal crop wild relatives in the Mediterranean Basin and Asian centre of diversity
Cereal crops are one of the most widely consumed and most valuable crops for humankind. The species have been domesticated for over 10,000 years and as such have lost much of the genetic diversity that is present within their wild relatives. Future breeding efforts will require the use of genetic diversity...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe; Near East; Africa
Publication year: 2019
123) An initiative for the study and use of genetic diversity of domesticated plants and their wild relatives
Domestication has been influenced by formal plant breeding since the onset of intensive agriculture and the Green Revolution. Despite providing food security for some regions, intensive agriculture has had substantial detrimental consequences for the environment and does not fulfill smallholder’s needs...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2018
124) An instant seed market
The availability, access and use of climate-resilient seed by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe is often hampered by transport costs, the distance between farming areas and viable seed markets, lack of public transport to business centers, and the inflated prices of seed and inputs by local agro-dealers....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
125) An inventory of crop wild relatives and wild-utilized plants in Canada
In the face of global pressures of change and biodiversity loss, crop wild relatives (CWR) and wild-utilized plants (WUS) urgently require conservation attention. To advance conservation, the authors assembled a national inventory of CWR and WUS in Canada. To assess current ex situ conservation, they...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: North America
Publication year: 2022