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1476) Policy and performance in Uganda's seed sector: Opportunities and challenges
Efforts to increase smallholder access to improved varieties and quality seed is often central to agricultural development, economic growth, and poverty reduction in low-income countries. Yet many governments and development partners grow impatient with slow progress in their seed sectors. Uganda stands...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2022
1477) Setting conservation priorities for crop wild relatives in the Fertile Crescent
The aim of this paper is to contribute directly to the systematic, long-term conservation of crop wild relatives (CWR) in the Fertile Crescent by setting conservation priorities to secure and improve CWR conservation in situ and ex situ as a means of underpinning global food security. This paper presents...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Near East
Publication year: 2018
1478) Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture – Project highlights
This brief presents highlights of the project "Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture", which was coordinated by Bioversity International, under the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/Treaty...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global; Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia
Publication year: 2019
1479) the Darwin SADC-CWR project
The goal of the Darwin SADC-CWR project is to help protect and enhance CWR in the region, and in doing so contribute to future crop improvement and help SADC countries meet their obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing and the International...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A
1480) Key descriptors for Sclerocarya birrea (marula)
This Descriptor list consists of an initial minimum set of characterization and evaluation descriptors for Sclerocarya birrea. This strategic set aims at facilitating access to and utilization of this African indigenous fruit tree. It does not exclude the addition of other descriptors at a later date....
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global; Africa
Publication year: 2021