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416) Declining Biodiversity Threatens Food Security
Globally, biodiversity for food and agriculture is in decline. This poses a serious risk to global food security and makes agriculture less resilient to climate change, pests and diseases. We need more sustainable food production systems to better conserve and sustainably use biodiversity. New challenges...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
417) Decoding Seed Quality: A Comparative Analysis of Seed Marketing Law in the EU and the United States
The European Union’s (EU) approach to safeguarding seed quality and ensuring agricultural productivity includes a range of regulatory measures related to seed marketing, including the restriction of market access to seed varieties that are properly certified. In order for varieties to be properly certified,...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe; North America
Publication year: 2021
418) Demand and Supply of Crop Infraspecific Diversity on Farms: Towards a Policy Framework for On-Farm Conservation
Interest is increasing worldwide in on-farm conservation as a component of a strategy to conserve crop genetic resources. On-farm conservation may require outside support to small-scale farmers in areas of crop domestication and diversity. This paper argues that crop infraspecific diversity maintained...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2001
419) Democratic Republic of the Congo Brief 2017 - The African Seed Access Index
This country brief summarizes the key findings of The African Seed Access Index (TASAI) study conducted in 2017 to appraise the structure and economic performance of the DRC’s seed sector. The study evaluates the enabling environment necessary to build a vibrant formal seed sector, focusing on four...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2017
420) Descriptors for Baobab (Adansonia digitata L.)
‘Descriptors for Baobab’ were developed as an output of the CGIAR-funded Agriculture for Nutrition and Health programme and the EC-funded Fruiting Africa project. It is the product of exhaustive collaboration amongst 15 core scientists, with consultations from baobab experts worldwide. “This descriptor...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2015