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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 deGellaw AFadda, Carlo[Seeds for needs: adaptation to climate change - Innovative tools to match seeds to the needs of women farmers in Ethiopia]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 deGellaw AFadda, CarloZonneveld, M. van[Seeds for Needs: atlas of crop suitability]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...


Gevel, Jeske van deGellaw AFadda, Carlo[Seeds for needs: participatory variety selection]Seeds for needs: participatory variety selection

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...


Gevel, Jeske van deGellaw, AFadda, Carlo[Seeds for needs: perceptions on climate change]Seeds for needs: perceptions on climate change

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