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1266) Tackling Food Insecurity in Cabo Verde Islands: The Nutritional, Agricultural and Environmental Values of the Legume Species
Legume species are important food sources to reduce hunger and deal with malnutrition; they also play a crucial role in sustainable agriculture in the tropical dry islands of Cabo Verde. To improve the knowledge of the heritage of plant genetic resources in this Middle Income Country, this study had...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
1267) Women seed saver Uganda
This video, produced by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA) shows the important role of women in saving seeds and therefore in eradicating hunger. As governments across Africa develop laws to deny farmers’ rights to exchange and sell local seeds, women are leading the fight to protect Africa’s...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1268) Crop Wild Relative Network Showcases – Analysis and Best Practices. Farmer’s Pride: Networking, partnerships and tools to enhance in situ conservation of European plant genetic resources.
Farmers’ Pride project has come up with a review and analysis of networks conserving crop wild relatives (CWR) in situ to identify the factors that promote their success, best practices with some key examples in Europe. The review resulted in 29 CWR genetic reserve network initiatives, nine showcases...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2021
1269) Nordic Cooperation on Genetic Resources
NordGen is the Nordic Countries’ common gene bank and knowledge centre for genetic resources. This brochure collects examples of how the Nordic seed collection is being used and why it’s important to preserve a genetic diversity within cultivated plants, etc.
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2019
1270) These Rare Seeds Escaped Syria's War—to Help Feed the World
In 2014, the remaining staff of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) fled their gene bank in Tel Hadia, 20 miles south of Aleppo. Syria’s civil war, which had broken out three years earlier, had finally made the staffing of the facility untenable. But the scientists...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Near East
Publication year: 2020