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    441) DIVERSIFOOD in action | Cultivating Diversity

    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

    442) Diversifying Food and Diets : Using agricultural biodiversity to improve nutrition and health

    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

    443) Diversifying the Sourcing and Deploying Methods to Enhance the Crop Diversity

    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

    444) Diversity analysis of 80,000 wheat accessions reveals consequences and opportunities of selection footprints

    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

    445) Diversity and Adaptation of Currently Grown Wheat Landraces and Modern Germplasm in Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey

    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