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This article briefly presents the efforts of the International Potato Center (CIP) to conserve the world’s genetic diversity —cultivated, wild and breeding material—of potato and sweetpotato for future use. Also available in Spanish...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
The publication aims at shedding light on the use, nutritional properties, market potential and contribution to local livelihoods of Andean grains (quinoa, cañahua and amaranth). It addresses some of the research gaps regarding knowledge of the use, as well as the market and non-market value of these...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2012
Over the last fifty years there has been a continual reduction in horticultural and agricultural biodiversity of nutritionally important plants, including those of the Solanaceae family. To add to this, the broad range of traditional crops, previously grown on a sustainable scale in some parts of the...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2015
The purpose of this Special Issue “Biodiversity of Vegetable Crops, A Living Heritage” is to publish high-quality research papers addressing recent progress and perspectives while focusing on different aspects related to the biodiversity of vegetable crops. Original, high-quality contributions that...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
Biodiversity loss is a complex issue, and biodiversity conservation relies on strategies involving a wide range of policy approaches such as regulatory command and control, economic incentives, supporting investment, the promotion of innovation, enabling actors, capacity-building, and goal-setting,...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019