A series of policy briefs bringing together the major results and policy recommendations of the Seeds for Needs project which started in 2009. The project was carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (IBC) in Ethiopia.
This project provides a unique framework f...
Gevel, Jeske van de
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Bioversity International
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Gellaw, A.
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Fadda, Carlo
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[Seeds for Needs: participatory variety selection]
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Seeds for Needs: participatory variety selection
A series of policy briefs bringing together the major results and policy recommendations of the Seeds for Needs project which started in 2009. The project was carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (IBC) in Ethiopia. The methodology and maps were developed by...
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
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
,
Fadda, Carlo
,
Zonneveld, M. van
,
[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...
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...