In 1995 the SGRP commissioned an External Review of the CGIAR Centre Genebank Operations. This review was conducted by a panel and involved 20 experts from national and regional genetic resources programmes, including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The purpose of this...
CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources Programme
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[Report of the internally commissioned external review of the CGIAR genebank operations]
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Report of the internally commissioned external review of the CGIAR genebank operations
In rural areas, the conservation and use of plant genetic resources begins with women. As smallholder farmers, women are involved in all areas of the crop cycle from seed selection to planting, harvest, storage and processing. Within the household, women are responsible for food needs and welfare...
The factsheet presents some initial findings of a multi-country climate change survey carried out in Peru, Zimbabwe and Vietnam in 2012-2013 by the Asociación para la Naturaleza y el Desarrollo Sostenible (ANDES), Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT), the Southeast Asia Regional Initiati...
Bioversity International
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Asociación para la Naturaleza y el Desarrollo Sostenible
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Community Technology Development Trust
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Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment
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Oxfam Novib
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[Briefing note: Building on farmers' perception and traditional knowledge: biodiversity management for climate change adaptation strategies]
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Briefing note: Building on farmers' perception and traditional knowledge: biodiversity management for climate change adaptation strategies
IBPGR commissioned this report to examine the implications of free radical activity for the safe conservation of plant genetic resources. This report evaluates the role of free radical damage in plant germplasm stored either as a seed or as in vitro (tissue culture) systems under cryopreservation...
This study is conducted to develop simple, rapid but efficient bio-nutritional techniques using nutrient solution, soil and sand cultures to assess the adaptability of nutrient solution, soil and sand cultures to assess the adaptability of forage crops to various soil conditions, to determine the...
Aduayi, E.A.
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Haque, I.
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[Screening forage legumes germplasm to low soil fertility: V. Highland Leucaena germplasm tolerance to phosphorus deficiency in solution, soil and sand culture(ILCA PSD Working Documents Nos. 18-21 1992)]
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Screening forage legumes germplasm to low soil fertility: V. Highland Leucaena germplasm tolerance to phosphorus deficiency in solution, soil and sand culture(ILCA PSD Working Documents Nos. 18-21 1992)
Using literature review this paper seeks to discuss gender integration into design and understanding of seed system interventions in roots, tubers, and bananas (RTB) crops. It focuses mainly on offering a critique of the multi-stakeholder framework for intervening in RTB seed systems, and offerin...
Mudege, Netsayi N.
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Walsh, S.
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[Gender and Roots Tubers and Bananas Seed Systems: a literature review.]
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Gender and Roots Tubers and Bananas Seed Systems: a literature review.
This review assesses our current knowledge of sweetpotato seed systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a contribution toward developing a conceptual framework for guiding practical interventions for root, tuber, and banana (RTB) seed systems. This is in the context of the CGIAR RTB program’s theme...
McEwan, M.
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[Sweetpotato seed systems in sub-saharan Africa: A literature review to contribute to the preparation of conceptual frameworks to guide practical interventions for root, tuber and banana seed systems.]
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Sweetpotato seed systems in sub-saharan Africa: A literature review to contribute to the preparation of conceptual frameworks to guide practical interventions for root, tuber and banana seed systems.
Root, tuber, and banana (RTB) crops are important for food security and commerce, especially in the tropics. They are vegetatively reproduced, so unlike crops grown from true seed. RTBs face unique challenges-they are bulky, perishable, and susceptible to pests (especially diseases)-and their see...
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas
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[Multi-stakeholder framework for intervening in RTB seed systems: user’s guide.]
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Multi-stakeholder framework for intervening in RTB seed systems: user’s guide.
Using on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (tricot) for crowdsourcing participatory variety selection is a new citizen–science methodology for agriculture. Developed by Bioversity International as part of a programme known as Seeds for Needs, it allows large numbers of farmers to test diff...
Bessette, G.
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[Can agricultural citizen science improve seed systems? The contributions of crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies]
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Can agricultural citizen science improve seed systems? The contributions of crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies