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
To guide climate adaptation policies and investments, the majority of least developed
countries (LDCs) have developed National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs).
Agricultural biodiversity is an important, but often overlooked, element in climate adaptation;
new crop varieties, cropping and ...
Bedmar Villanueva, A.
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Halewood, Michael
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López Noriega, Isabel
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[Agricultural biodiversity in climate change adaptation planning: An analysis of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action]
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Agricultural biodiversity in climate change adaptation planning: An analysis of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action
The synthesis report is part of a series of papers on Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) in Africa’s thematic working group on Matching national realities with global commitments. The thematic working group addressed the main question on how African governments implement their global commi...
Halewood, Michael
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Otieno, G.
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Nkhoma, C.
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Kasasa, P.
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Mulumba, J.W.
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Gapusi, J.
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Jonge, B. de
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[Access and benefit-sharing policies for climate-resilient seed systems.]
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Access and benefit-sharing policies for climate-resilient seed systems.
Beed, Fen D.
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Benedetti, A.
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Cardinali, G.
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Chakraborty, S.
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Dubois, T.
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Garrett, K.
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Halewood, Michael
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[Micro-organism genetic resources for food and agriculture and climate change]
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Micro-organism genetic resources for food and agriculture and climate change
Between 2012 and 2015, 150 researchers, research managers, gene bank managers, extension agents, university professors and staff of non-government organizations from Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe acquired new knowledge and s...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Otieno, G.
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Bessette, G.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Galluzzi, G.
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Gevel, J.M.J. van de
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Halewood, Michael
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López Noriega, I.
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Mathur, P.N.
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Mittra, S.
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Rudebjer, P.G.
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Steinke, J.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Etten, Jacob van
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Zonneveld, Maarten van
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[A novel strategy to discover and use climate-adapted germplasm]
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A novel strategy to discover and use climate-adapted germplasm
Bedmar Villanueva, A.
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Halewood, Michael
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López Noriega, Isabel
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[Agricultural biodiversity in climate change adaptation planning: an analysis of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action]
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Agricultural biodiversity in climate change adaptation planning: an analysis of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action
Bedmar Villanueva, A.
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López Noriega, Isabel
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Halewood, Michael
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Otieno, G.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Using access and benefit sharing policies to support climate change adaptation]
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Using access and benefit sharing policies to support climate change adaptation
Benin is located on the Guinean coast of West Africa and has a mixed tropical and sub-equatorial climate with two rainy seasons. Beninoise farmers practice mixed rain-fed crop and livestock farming. Climate change puts the country at risk of food insecurity. Since the 1960s the mean average tempe...
Otieno, Gloria
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N’Danikou, Sognigbe
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Bossou, Bienvenu
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Mikpon, Toussaint
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Vodouhe, Raymond
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Recha, John W.M.
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Halewood, Michael
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[Enhancing the capacity of local communities to access crop genetic diversity for climate change adaptation]
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Enhancing the capacity of local communities to access crop genetic diversity for climate change adaptation