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476) Enhancing climate resilience in the farming systems with crop diversification in Zambia – Farmer participatory field trials for demonstration of good practices and co-learning
This brief aims to promote in a holistic way crop diversification with improved varieties in Zambia, to leverage investments by the private sector. Because of the diverse functions and market conditions of different crops, crop diversification is often considered a risk management strategy for smallholders....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2022
477) Enhancing Crop Genepool Use: Capturing Wild Relative and Landrace Diversity for Crop Improvement
Maintaining food security in the face of human population increase and climate change is one of the critical challenges facing us in the 21st Century. Utilisation of the full range of agrobiodiversity will be a necessary tool in addressing this challenge. In this book a team of international contributors...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2006
478) Enhancing farmers’ agency in the global crop commons through use of biocultural community protocols
Crop genetic resources constitute a ‘new’ global commons, characterized by multiple layers of activities of farmers, genebanks, public and private research and development organizations, and regulatory agencies operating from local to global levels. This paper presents sui generis biocultural community...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
479) Enhancing In-crop Diversity in Common Bean by Planting Cultivar Mixtures and Its Effect on Productivity
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important food legume crop worldwide. Canadian beans, especially large seeded cultivars of Andean origin, have relatively narrow genetic diversities. Establishing crops with mixtures of cultivars instead of pure lines is a simple, cost-effective way to...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
480) Enhancing resilience of farmer seed system to climate-induced stresses: Insights from a case study in West Nile region, Uganda
Given the challenges facing African agriculture resulting from climate-induced stresses, building resilience is a priority. Seed systems are important for enhancing such resilience as seed security has direct links to food security, and resilient livelihoods in general. Using data from a case study in...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2016