This brief highlights efforts in East Africa and in Asia, Pacific and Oceania (APO), supported by two internationally funded projects, to develop user-friendly tools and methods to identify germplasm of populations/varieties/species that are adapted to the changing climates of areas where farmers...
Halewood, Michael
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Mathur, P.N.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Otieno, G.
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[Using crop diversity to adapt to climate change: highlighting the importance of the Plant Treaty's policy support]
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Using crop diversity to adapt to climate change: highlighting the importance of the Plant Treaty's policy support
As climate change continues to drastically affect food security around the world, many farmers are in need of new crops and crop varieties that can be grown in the changed environment of their farms. Adaptation options to climate change already exist in genebanks and other farmers’ fields in the ...
Gevel, Jeske van de
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Gellaw A
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Fadda, Carlo
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[Seeds for needs: adaptation to climate change - Innovative tools to match seeds to the needs of women farmers in Ethiopia]
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Seeds for needs: adaptation to climate change - Innovative tools to match seeds to the needs of women farmers in Ethiopia
The ‘Atlas of crop suitability’ is an essential tool to predict the environment under which an accession or a group of accessions can grow based on the climatic characteristics of the locality in which they were collected. The more information is available on any given accession the more the pred...
Gevel, Jeske van de
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Gellaw A
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Fadda, Carlo
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Zonneveld, M. van
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[Seeds for Needs: atlas of crop suitability]
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Seeds for Needs: atlas of crop suitability
Varietal preference is a carefully weighed balance between consumption and production characteristics. Farmers not only select the high yielding varieties but prefer landraces because of their taste, nutritional value and the ability to grow with fewer inputs. Differences in temperatures, rainfal...
Between 2010 and 2012 Bioversity International worked with partners and stakeholders in Ethiopia to develop an innovative low-cost strategy for managing risks to agricultural systems posed by the adverse effects of climate change. The objective, which the project indeed achieved, was to decrease ...
Gotor, E
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Fadda, Carlo
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Trincia, C
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[Matching Seeds to Needs - female farmers adapt to a changing climate in Ethiopia]
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Matching Seeds to Needs - female farmers adapt to a changing climate in Ethiopia
In this paper we focus on the issue of how climate change affects the way that agricultural systems
and the people that manage and govern them need to change in the next 20 years in order to
achieve food security, and how FAO and CGIAR can support that change. We build on a huge body
of lit...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Lipper, Leslie
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Baas, S.
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Cattaneo, Andrea
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Chesterman, Sabrina
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Cochrane, K.
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Young, C. de
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Etten, Jacob van
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Clerck, F. de
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Douthwaite, Boru
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DuVal A
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Fadda, Carlo
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Garnett, Tara
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Gerber, Pierre J.
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Howden, Mark
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Mann W
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McCarthy N
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Sessa R
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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[How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security? Background paper for the conference "Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century" held in Dublin, Ireland, 11-12 April 2013]
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How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security? Background paper for the conference "Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century" held in Dublin, Ireland, 11-12 April 2013
Ethiopia is known for having a high diversity of durum wheat landraces. Most farmers in East Shewa’a have been replacing their landraces with modern varieties. These uniformly performing varieties require significant amount of external inputs and have less genetic variability and adaptive capacit...