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1491) Traditional and Indigenous Fruits and Vegetables for Food System Transformation
Fruit and vegetable consumption is recommended in numerous food-based dietary guidelines and forms a key recommendation in many international statements related to healthy diets. There are thousands of fruit and vegetable species from which to choose, but despite this abundance from nature, populations...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
1492) Conserving Traditional Seed Crops Diversity
Over the last two decades, 75% of the genetic diversity of agricultural crops has been lost. Genetic diversity is the basis of all crop improvement. Crop varieties, as an integral part of genetic diversity, are the result of human selection and management, as well as natural mechanisms of evolution....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2015
1493) Global Strategy for the ex situ Conservation of Finger Millet and its Wild Relatives
This document, developed with the input of a large number of experts, aims to provide a framework for the efficient and effective ex situ conservation of globally important collections of finger millet.
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2012
1494) Diversity and Conservation Priorities of Crop Wild Relatives in Mexico
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are valuable resources for crop breeding due to their close genetic relationship to the cultivated plants and their wide genetic variation, allowing the introgression of desirable traits into the crops, such as resistance to plant pests and diseases or adaptability to climate...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2019
1495) BSF project "An Integrated Approach to Identify and Characterize Climate Resilient Wheat for the West Asia and North Africa Region"
The countries of West Asia and North Africa (WANA) face challenging issues of water scarcity, drought, land degradation and desertification, threatening agricultural productivity. Climate change is exacerbating the situation, and the region and its growing population now depend heavily on food imports....
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Near East
Publication year: N/A