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51) A review of ten rich underutilised crops in Kenya
This booklet provides an overview of ten crop varieties as selected by the Kenyan Seed Savers Network. Through their effort of documenting and characterising local underutilised seed varieties, the Seed Savers Network delivers a significant contribution to the preservation of plant genetic resources...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
52) A Road Map for Conservation, Use, and Public Engagement around North America’s Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Utilized Plants
Crop wild relatives are valuable genetic resources used by plant breeders to increase pest and disease resistance, stress tolerance, nutritional profile, and other traits critical to productivity, quality, and sustainability. Wild utilized plants provide food and a variety of other ecosystem and cultural...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: North America
Publication year: 2019
53) A scoping review of adoption of climate-resilient crops by small-scale producers in low- and middle-income countries
This study performed a descriptive analysis of 202 papers and showed that small-scale producers adopted climate-resilient crops and varieties to cope with abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, flooding and salinity. The most important determinants of adoption of climate-resilient crops were the availability...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
54) A scoping review of interventions for crop postharvest loss reduction in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Reducing post-harvest losses of food crops is a critical component of sustainably increasing agricultural productivity. In this study, post-harvest losses reduction interventions for 22 crops across 57 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia from the 1970s to 2019 were systematically reviewed....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa; Asia
Publication year: 2020
55) A scoping review of market links between value chain actors and small-scale producers in developing regions
Small-scale producers interact with various actors when they link with markets. The literature has explored primarily how large firms interact with farmers through formal contracts and resource provision arrangements. Although important, contracts constitute a very small share of smallholder market interactions....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020