Indigenous in Ethiopia where it is grown in rotation with cereals and pulses, niger (Guizotia abyssinica) is an important oilseed crop supplying 50% of Ethiopian oilseed production. It is also grown in India in marginal areas where it contributes a small but important part of oilseed production (...
This book, the first of its kind in the Indian context, will be found useful by researchers/users and curators engaged in plant genetic resources activities, by the teachers and post-graduate students in traditional and State Universities and equally so, by the policy-makers and conservationists ...
Frison, Emile A.
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Servinsky, J.
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European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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[Directory of European institutions holding crop genetic resources collections (Fourth Edition): Vol. 2. Index]
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Directory of European institutions holding crop genetic resources collections (Fourth Edition): Vol. 2. Index
Four multicrop germplasm collecting missions took place in Albania during 1993-95 which collected 5 accessions of oregano, subsequently deposited at the Germplasm Institute in Bari, Italy. This paper briefly considers the geographical distribution and taxonomy of Origanum in Albania and includes ...
Los parientes silvestres de los cultivos (PSC) se pueden definir como plantas silvestres más o menos relacionadas con un cultivo. Los PSC representan un recurso genético vital para el fitomejoramiento de variedades nuevas mejoradas, que se necesitan para mantener y aumentar la productividad de nu...
Hunter, D.
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Heywood, V.
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Bioversity International
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[Parientes silvestres de los cultivos: Manual para la conservación in situ]
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Parientes silvestres de los cultivos: Manual para la conservación in situ
The Global Strategy for the Conservation and Use of Cacao Genetic Resources, developed by the Global Network for Cacao Genetic Resources (CacaoNet). The strategy is the result of a consultation process that drew upon the global cocoa community’s expertise in all aspects of cacao genetic resources...
Lberté, B.
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CacaoNet
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Bioversity International
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[A global strategy for the conservation and use of cacao genetic resources, as the foundation for a sustainable cocoa economy]
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A global strategy for the conservation and use of cacao genetic resources, as the foundation for a sustainable cocoa economy
Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems takes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, and benefit from biodiversity in agricultural production systems. The volume includes the most recent research and developments in the maintenance of local diversity at the genetic, species, and ecosyst...
The book includes a set of community-based management practices of agricultural biodiversity such as participatory four cell analysis that allows analysis of the amount and distribution of local crop diversity and farmer’s rationale of such distribution; documenting traditional knowledge and dive...
Sthapit, B.
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Shrestha, P.
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Bioversity International
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Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development
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Nepal Agricultural Research Council
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[On-farm management of agricultural biodiversity in Nepal: Good practices - Revised edition 2012]
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On-farm management of agricultural biodiversity in Nepal: Good practices - Revised edition 2012
This book focuses on the relationship between climate-change adaptation, rural development and the roles of trees and agroforestry. Rewards' schemes for environmental services (RES) in multifunctional landscapes, which provide incentives for maintaining or restoring multifunctionality, will contr...
Noordwijk, Meine van
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Hoang, Minh Ha
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Öborn, Ingrid
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Yatich, T.
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[How trees and people can co- adapt to climate change: reducing vulnerability through multifunctional agroforestry landscapes]
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How trees and people can co- adapt to climate change: reducing vulnerability through multifunctional agroforestry landscapes
Global warming is a prominent environmental issue of the twenty-first century. Agriculture contributes to the global warming primarily through the emission and consumption of greenhouse gases (GHGs), viz. methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. The major sources of emission of GHGs in the agri...
Pathak, Himanshu
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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[Low carbon technologies for agriculture: a study on rice and wheat production systems in the Indo-Gangetic plains]
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Low carbon technologies for agriculture: a study on rice and wheat production systems in the Indo-Gangetic plains