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1646) Inside the Svalbard Seed Vault
A rare look inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault which is closed ~350 days a year
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global; Europe
Publication year: 2016
1647) Enhancing Crop Genepool Use: Capturing Wild Relative and Landrace Diversity for Crop Improvement
Maintaining food security in the face of human population increase and climate change is one of the critical challenges facing us in the 21st Century. Utilisation of the full range of agrobiodiversity will be a necessary tool in addressing this challenge. In this book a team of international contributors...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2006
1648) Harlan and de Wet Crop Wild Relative Inventory
The Harlan and de Wet Crop Wild Relative Inventory uses both genepool concepts as well as documentation of CWR species that have been successfully used in breeding in the past to provide a priority list of 1400 CWR species, along with key ancillary data such as their regional and national occurrence,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
1649) Seed Systems Smallholder Farmers Use
Seed can be an important entry point for promoting productivity, nutrition and resilience among smallholder farmers. While investments have primarily focused on strengthening the formal sector, this article documents the degree to which the informal sector remains the core for seed acquisition, especially...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2016
1650) Indigenous communities and their food systems: a contribution to the current debate
The present study contributes to the debate on the need to develop unconventional strategies for mitigating food insecurity in the world. Ancient peoples’ knowledge and experience may help to deepen the debate and establish a line of work based on the case study herein presented. The study proposes...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020