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181) Bottlenecks in the PGRFA use system: stakeholders’ perspectives
An essential component of efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change on crop production and food security is the production of new varieties of crops which can thrive in more extreme, changeable and uncertain environmental conditions. Humankind is therefore dependent on the continual availability...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
182) Breadfruit - Costa Rica
Traveling through Costa Rica’s mountainous interior with Paul Zink, the intrepid Johnny Appleseed of Breadfruit. Long considered “poor people’s food,” breadfruit has recently undergone a culinary renaissance, one that has turned the fruit into a new source of income for home farmers and a key...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2021
183) Bringing Agrobiodiversity to Your Dinner Table - Podcast
The Fact/Food Tank podcast series on Bringing Agrobiodiversity to Your Dinner Table, a six-part podcast series that looks at the challenges and opportunities for creating a more diverse food system. Produced in partnership with FOODTANK and FACT, the series features guests from across the globe who are...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
184) Bringing Farmers Back into Breeding: Experiences with Participatory Plant Breeding and Challenges for Institutionalisation
This report provides an overview of participatory plant breeding (PPB). It reviews the approach from both a technical and a social perspective and identifies the challenges for incorporating PPB in national plant breeding regimes. It draws on the concrete experiences of a number of PPB projects in Latin...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2006
185) Bringing landraces back home, 50 years later
Back in 1966-67, researcher Ángel Kato from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) collected 93 maize landraces samples from 66 families in Mexico’s state of Morelos. These seeds were safeguarded in CIMMYT’s Germplasm Bank, which today stores 28,000 samples of maize and its...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020