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The role of biodiversity in plant breeding needs to be reconsidered to cope with the complexity, location specificity and combined challenges of climate change, human population increase, human health and food security, safety and sovereignty. From a biological viewpoint, heterogeneous plant populations...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
The civil society – independent of the private sector and government – plays a unique role in promoting and advocating Community Seed Production (CSP) for smallholder farmers. Oftentimes, farmer groups, farmer associations and other community-based institutions provide support to seed related activities...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global; Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia
Publication year: 2013
Seeds are cleaned to decrease bulk, reduce disease risk, and facilitate future use. Cleaning long-term conservation collections without causing physical damage and reducing seed viability requires care and expertise. This information sheet outlines the seed cleaning techniques used most frequently by...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
This perspective describes the opportunities and challenges of data-driven approaches for crop diversity management (genebanks and breeding) in the context of agricultural research for sustainable development in the Global South. Data-driven approaches build on larger volumes of data and flexible analyses...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2023
In recent decades Indigenous Peoples globally have experienced rapid and dramatic shifts in lifestyle that are unprecedented in history. Moving away from their own self-sustaining, local food systems into industrially derived food supplies, these changes have adverse effects on dietary quality and health....
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019