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
The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT is implementing a Dutch-supported project entitled: Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region. This work aims to boost timely and affordable access to good-quality seed for a portfolio of crop...
Recha, Tobias
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Halewood, Michael
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Fadda, Carlo
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Mushita, Andrew
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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Kidane, Yosef
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[Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019]
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Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019
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...