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26) A Dual Strategy of Breeding for Drought Tolerance and Introducing Drought-Tolerant, Underutilized Crops into Production Systems to Enhance Their Resilience to Water Deficiency
Water scarcity is the primary constraint on crop productivity in arid and semiarid tropical areas suffering from climate alterations; in accordance, agricultural systems have to be optimized. Several concepts and strategies should be considered to improve crop yield and quality, particularly in vulnerable...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
27) A Field Manual for Seed Collectors
This Manual of Seed Collecting is designed to provide general guidelines regarding seed collecting practice and to provide specific practical details relevant to the collection of seed for the Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP). It is written with the understanding that different institutions and projects...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
28) A Future for Small Farms? Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture
Small farms play a crucial role in conserving the agricultural biodiversity that underpins longterm food security worldwide. Particularly in centers of crop genetic diversity – such as Mesoamerica in the case of maize (corn) and the Andean region in the case of potatoes – small farmers are the ‘keystone...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2004
29) A gap analysis modelling framework to prioritize collecting for ex situ conservation of crop landraces
The conservation and effective use of crop genetic diversity are crucial to overcome challenges related to human nutrition and agricultural sustainability. Farmers’ traditional varieties are major sources of genetic variation. The degree of representation of crop landrace diversity in ex-situ conservation...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
30) A global database for the distributions of crop wild relatives
CIAT published a global database for the distributions of crop wild relatives. This dataset was assembled as part of the project ‘Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives’, which is supported by the Government of Norway. The project is managed...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A