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291) Collecting plant genetic diversity: technical guidelines
This resource guides new and experienced collectors on how to sample, collect and preserve a wealth of genetic resources – not only crop plants and trees but also wild species, symbiotic bacteria and fungi, pollen and even DNA.
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2011
292) Collection calendar: the diversity and local knowledge of wild edible plants used by Chenthang Sherpa people to treat seasonal food shortages in Tibet, China
Wild edible plants (WEPs) are non-cultivated and non-domesticated plants used for food. WEPs provided food, nutrition, herbs and other plant products for people in underdeveloped areas, such as the Everest region, to maintain their daily lives. Chenthang Town is the only Sherpa ethnic township in Tibet,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2021
293) Collective Action and Marketing of Underutilized Plant Species
Minor millets are examples of underutilized plant species, being locally important but rarely traded internationally with an unexploited economic potential. In the Kolli hills of Tamil Nadu, India, a genetically diverse pool of minor millet varieties are grown by the tribal farming communities to meet...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2007
294) Collective action for market-chain innovation in the Andes
The genetic diversity of native potatoes grown in remote mountainous areas of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, as well as the social capital and local knowledge of the smallholders that have cultivated them for centuries, are assets that are often undervalued. This book chapter presents the Participatory...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2016
295) Collective Action in Plant Genetic Resources Management
Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources. Agrobiodiversity at the community level is conceptualized as a collective resource requiring the management of varieties, species and their interrelations within a farming-system. In the rice dominated agriculture in the uplands...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2006