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256) Business Skills for Small-scale Seed Producers: Handbooks for Small-Scale Seed Producers. Handbook 2
This handbook presents some basic information for establishing a small scale seed production business, as one which provides important services to a community: permanent availability of good quality seed, or the possibility of introducing new varieties. Issues covered include an analysis of the need...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2002
257) Cabo Verde’s Poaceae Flora: A Reservoir of Crop Wild Relatives Diversity for Crop Improvement
Africa is home to important centers of origin and diversity of crop wild relatives (CWR), including many species adapted to adverse agroecological conditions, namely drought and poor soils. Plant genetic resources from Cabo Verde Islands have been poorly explored for their potential to supplement the...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
258) Can a People’s Biodiversity Register Contribute to Conservation?
The loss of biodiversity is becoming a major threat in India and across the world. In an attempt to preserve India’s vast biodiversity, the Indian government enacted the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. This Act provisions for Biodiversity Management Committees (BMC) at the local level, which aim to...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2021
259) Can Agricultural Citizen Science Improve Seed Systems? The contributions of crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies
Using on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (tricot) for crowdsourcing participatory variety selection is a citizen–science methodology for agriculture. Developed by Bioversity International as part of a programme known as Seeds for Needs, it allows large numbers of farmers to test different...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
260) Capacity Building Workshop on Genetic Resource Policies for CGIAR Scientists and Partners in East Africa, 4 - 7 June 2019, ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The CGIAR Genebank Platform Policy Module, in coordination with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), organized the ‘Capacity building workshop on genetic resource policies for CGIAR scientists and partners in East Africa’. The workshop was held from 4 - 7 June 2019, at the ILRI...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019