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1311) Participatory plant breeding (PPB)
This website on participatory plant breeding (PPB) provides an overview of PPB, access to information on a number of research and applied projects, a PPB bibliography, methods and training materials, and individual and institutional contacts. Note that some of the external links are no longer functional...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
1312) Towards a better understanding of custodian farmers and their roles: insights from a case study in Cachilaya, Bolivia
This publication is the result of a research collaboration between Bioversity International and the Fundación para la Promoción e Investigación de Productos Andinos (PROINPA). It deals with issues regarding on-farm conservation of agrobiodiversity, which is a poorly addressed field of research in...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2013
1313) Bold gets Bolder: Enhancing the Production and Consumption of Neglected and Underutilized Food Crops
This is a promotional brochure for the BOLD 9BOLD (Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development) project. BOLD's objective is to strengthen food and nutrition security worldwide by supporting the conservation of crop diversity in genebanks, and its use in pre-breeding. An extension to...
Subject: Crop diversity; Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species; Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Global
Publication year: 2021
1314) The centrality of seed: Building agricultural resilience through plant breeding
This short article introduces the concepts of participatory plant breeding (PPB) and evolutionary plant breeding (EPB) and includes a case study of PPB of tomatoes for organic farming.
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global; Europe
Publication year: 2016
1315) Home gardens’ agrobiodiversity and owners’ knowledge of their ecological, economic and socio-cultural multifunctionality: a case study in the lowlands of Tabasco, México
Home gardens (HGs) are hotspots of in situ agrobiodiversity conservation. This study was conducted in Tabasco, México, and focused on HG owners’ knowledge of HG ecological, economical and socio-cultural multifunctionality and how it relates to agrobiodiversity as measured by species richness and diversity....
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020