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461) Guide on incentives for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
Increased investment in agriculture and food systems—from both the private and public sectors—is critical to enhance food security and nutrition, reduce poverty, and adapt to climate change. To generate sustainable benefits, this investment must be responsible. What role should investment incentives...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
462) 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
463) Biodiversity of Food Species of the Solanaceae Family: A Preliminary Taxonomic Inventory of Subfamily Solanoideae
Over the last fifty years there has been a continual reduction in horticultural and agricultural biodiversity of nutritionally important plants, including those of the Solanaceae family. To add to this, the broad range of traditional crops, previously grown on a sustainable scale in some parts of the...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2015
464) Status of Underutilised Crops in South Africa: Opportunities for Developing Research Capacity
Underutilised crops represent an important component of agro-biodiversity with potential to contribute to climate change adaptation, food security and sovereignty in poor rural areas. However, despite emerging research interest, they continue to occupy the peripheries of mainstream agriculture. There...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2017
465) Plant Genebanks: Present Situation and Proposals for Their Improvement. the Case of the Spanish Network
Genebanks were created by the middle of the twentieth century to preserve cultivated biodiversity when landraces began to be substituted by modern varieties. After about 75 years of collecting and maintaining genetic resources, the increasing ability of biotechnology to create new variability brings...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2018