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471) Embracing diversity: inputs for a strategy to support community seedbanks in South Africa’s smallholder farming areas
This report presents the findings of a field mission to Limpopo and Eastern Cape provinces of the Republic of South Africa. The mission aimed to assess the viability of establishing and supporting community seed banks in the country’s smallholder farming areas. Tools used included four cell analysis,...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2013
472) Enabling agricultural innovation systems to promote appropriate technologies and practices for farmers, rural youth and women during COVID-19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will vary for different groups of rural population, with the highest impact expected to be on farmers and other vulnerable groups, especially women and youth. Targeted support is feasible only by activating a network of actors or organizations within agricultural innovation...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
473) Enabling sustainable food systems: Innovators’ handbook
This handbook is written for "sustainable food systems innovators" by a group of innovators from Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, leading initiatives to grow, share, sell and consume more sustainable foods in their local contexts. It includes experiences that are changing the organizational structures...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
474) Endemic wild potato (Solanum spp.) biodiversity status in Bolivia: Reasons for conservation concerns
Crop wild relatives possess important traits, therefore ex situ and in situ conservation efforts are essential to maintain sufficient options for crop improvement. Bolivia is a centre of wild relative diversity for several crops, among them potato, which is an important staple worldwide and the principal...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2014
475) Enhanced agricultural sustainability through within-species diversification
Agriculture has played an important role in human health and welfare by producing large amounts of food to feed a growing world population, but this has also placed substantial pressures on natural resources and the environment. One of the most pressing challenges in agriculture is how to ensure food...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019