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276) Characterization of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in Europe
The recognition and safeguarding of agricultural heritage in Europe are new concepts that are gaining attention due to the contribution they make to sustainability. Of the 57 Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) that exist in the world today, only six have been designated in Europe....
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
277) Chatham House Dialogue on Crop Diversity for Challenging Times: the Role of Genebanks in Sustainable Development
The Chatham House Dialogue comprised three separate sessions that aimed to build a vision of how genebanks can play a fuller and more effective role in helping agriculture meet future challenges. Special attention was paid to the evolving role of the international genebanks managed by the CGIAR. The...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
278) China’s crop wild relatives: Diversity for agriculture and food security
The potentially devastating impacts of climate change on crop production and food security are now widely acknowledged. An important component of efforts to mitigate these impacts is the production of new varieties of crops which will be able to thrive in more extreme and changeable environmental conditions....
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2015
279) CIMMYT's MAIZE project Annual Report 2019
The 2019 Annual Report by CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) highlights their great advances in the development of improved stress-tolerant maize varieties, with enhanced genetic gain and novel genetic diversity and tools. CGIAR's national partners and seed companies across Africa, Latin America...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia
Publication year: 2020
280) Civic seeds: new institutions for seed systems and communities—a 2016 survey of California seed libraries
Seed libraries (SLs) are institutions that support the creation of semi-formal seed systems, but are often intended to address larger issues that are part of the “food movement” in the global north. Over 100 SLs are reported present in California. The author describes a functional framework for studying...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: North America
Publication year: 2016