416) Biodiversity and Plant Breeding as Tools for Harmony - Between Modern Agriculture Production and the Environment

The agenda for a new “Green Revolution” needs to consider new approaches to promote innovations in plant science, agricultural and management practices and benefits to farmers and consumers. In this article two general ways are described in which plant breeders can engage in environmental issues:...

Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2015

417) “The Old Foods Are the New Foods!”: Erosion and Revitalization of Indigenous Food Systems in Northwestern North America

Indigenous people have always valued their ancestral foods, and over the last few decades there have been many initiatives throughout the region to restore and revitalize these original foods, and to re-learn Indigenous methods of processing and harvesting them. This paper describes the original Indigenous...

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: North America

Publication year: 2020

418) Farmer seed enterprises: A sustainable approach to seed delivery?

A major reason for the low adoption of modern varieties of seed among small-scale farmers in developing countries is the inability of formal, centralized seed production systems to meet their complex and diverse seed requirements. Drawing on experiences in Uganda with the common bean, the paper proposes...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2004

419) The Crop Genebank Knowledge Base (CGKB)

The Crop Genebank Knowledge Base is an initiative of the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Its main goal is to contribute to more efficient and effective ex situ conservation and use of crop genetic resources through...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: N/A

420) Traditional seeds and biodiversity: What legal regulation(s)? The Colombian case

Subject: Seed system; Traditional Knowledge

Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2019