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This video presents two of the many experiments being conducted as part of the European project DIVERSIFOOD, which presents a new idea of agriculture to promote food diversity. In a field near Raddusa, in Sicily, an Italian farmer named Giuseppe Li Rosi is cultivating an evolutionary participatory crop...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2018
Agricultural biodiversity is important for food and nutritional security, as a safeguard against hunger, a source of nutrients for improved dietary diversity and quality, and strengthening local food systems and environmental sustainability. This book explores the current state of knowledge on the role...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa; Asia; Global; Latin America and the Caribbean; South West Pacific
Publication year: 2013
This brief presents several methods that can be used to source and deploy new crop diversity: Climate Analogue Tool (CAT) for sourcing diversity; Participatory seed exchange (PSE); Diversity blocks; Participatory varietal selection (PVS); Informal research and development (IRD); and Diversity kit. ...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
An international research team, including crop scientists from NIAB, genetically characterised nearly 80,000 samples of wheat from the germplasm banks of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). The...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
Collection of wheat landraces (WLR) was conducted in Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey in 2010–2014. Overall, 157 genotypes were tested in Turkey in 2018 and 2019 and in Afghanistan and Iran in 2019 under rainfed conditions to compare performance of WLR and modern material. Three groups of landraces demonstrated...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Near East; Europe
Publication year: 2021