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" Management, Development & Utilization of Various Crops Plants for Sustainable Food Availability" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Second Cycle). The National Research Institute of Indonesia, ICABIOGRAD, is working with...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Asia
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Potato (Solanum tuberosum) ranks as the world's third most important food crop, after wheat and rice, and provides a significant contribution to the global food supply as well as playing a key role for food security and subsistence of Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andean smallholders. The extreme temperatures,...
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Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
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Cassava (Manihot esculenta), also called yuca or manioc, is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions. The extreme temperatures, drought and flooding brought about by climate change are affecting cassava cultivation. New and changed pathogens are threatening to exacerbate...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa
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World population continues to grow and climate change is contributing to the loss of crop biodiversity. Genebank collections around the world hold the genetic material needed to maintain crop diversity and meet food security challenges. The quality and management of the information associated with the...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
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The project "National articulation for the governance and collective management of genetic diversity and its associated knowledge in family and peasant agriculture in Uruguay" supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Fourth Cycle) will establish Regional...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
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