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1636) Village Level Gene Seed Grain Bank An Initiative to Promote Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security
Traditionally, rice was being grown on upland, medium land, lowland, crops like finger millet (Eleucine coracana), little millet (Panicum miliaceum), foxtail millet (Setaria italica), Niger (Guizotia abyssinica), pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) and horse gram (Dolichos uniflorus) were cultivated in donger...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2016
1637) Conserving landraces and improving livelihoods: how to assess the success of on-farm conservation projects?
Smallholder farmers who grow diverse landraces in centres of crop diversity contribute to sustaining the capacity of agricultural and food systems to adapt to change by maintaining crop evolution in their fields today, thus enabling humanity to continue to have the broad genetic variation needed to adapt...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
1638) From Genebanks to Farmers: A study of approaches to introduce genebank material to farmers' seed systems
This report reviews strategies, methodologies and projects that exist to facilitate direct access to gene bank material for farmers. Based on a literature review and survey, as well as interviews and data collection from key actors in conservation and development oriented seed system work, the authors...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
1639) Evolutionary Plant Breeding in Cereals - Into a New Era
In evolutionary plant breeding, crop populations with a high level of genetic diversity are subjected to the forces of natural selection. In a cycle of sowing and re-sowing seed from the plant population year after year, those plants favored under prevailing growing conditions are expected to contribute...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2011
1640) Crop expansion and conservation priorities in tropical countries
Expansion of cropland in tropical countries is one of the principal causes of biodiversity loss, and threatens to undermine progress towards meeting the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. To understand this threat better, this study analysed data on crop distribution and expansion in 128 tropical countries,...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2013