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346) Conserving and adding value to landrace turmeric of Rodrigues Island
GEF Small Grants Programme's project – Rodrigues Island is a low-income economy based on traditional agriculture, fishing and livestock rearing. The production of some landrace varieties has considerably decreased in the last few years, mainly due to rising temperatures, variable precipitation, reduced...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A
347) Conserving and Sharing Taro Genetic Resources for the Benefit of Global Taro Cultivation: A Core Contribution of the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees
Taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) is an important staple food crop in many countries in the humid tropics and subtropics. This article reviews the origin, domestication, and dispersal of taro, its genetic diversity and ex situ germplasm collections, and the role of the Centre for Pacific Crops and...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: South West Pacific
Publication year: 2018
348) Conserving Europe's plant genetic diversity - on farms, in garden and in the wild
An overview of the Farmer’s Pride project, its objectives, activities and partner organizations.
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2019
349) Conserving landraces and improving livelihoods: how to assess the success of on-farm conservation projects?
Smallholder farmers who grow diverse landraces in centres of crop diversity contribute to sustaining the capacity of agricultural and food systems to adapt to change by maintaining crop evolution in their fields today, thus enabling humanity to continue to have the broad genetic variation needed to adapt...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
350) Conserving Plant Genetic Diversity in Protected Areas
Providing a long-awaited synthesis of methodologies, this book presents a practical set of management guidelines that can be used for the conservation of plant genetic diversity of crop wild relatives in protected areas.
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2008