Brief description of eight underutilized crops in rural Nepal that have become the focus of efforts to promote a healthier lifestyle and marketplace for farmers and locals in Nepal.
Sthapit, B.
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Zucker, J.
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Bennett, A.
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Bioversity International
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[Himalayan foods: healthy and nutritious crop varieties]
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Himalayan foods: healthy and nutritious crop varieties
After looking at the principles for ecogeographical surveying and in situ conservation, this report puts forward a proposal for action and policy recommendations.
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
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[Ecogeographical surveying and In Situ conservation of crop relatives]
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Ecogeographical surveying and In Situ conservation of crop relatives
Astley, D.
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European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
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[Report of a workshop on Umbellifer crop genetic resources, 31 August 1997, Kraków, Poland]
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Report of a workshop on Umbellifer crop genetic resources, 31 August 1997, Kraków, Poland
Over the years the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has conducted research and developed seed systems’ interventions to promote the availability, accessibility and utilization of clean seed. As part of this work RTB has developed a seed systems framework for intervening i...
Mudege, Netsayi N.
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Torres, S.
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[Gender mainstreaming in root tuber and banana crops seed systems interventions: identification of lessons learnt and gaps.]
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Gender mainstreaming in root tuber and banana crops seed systems interventions: identification of lessons learnt and gaps.
Bioversity International
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European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
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[Pre-breeding for small grain cereals: How to meet future challenges of food supply under a changing climate]
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Pre-breeding for small grain cereals: How to meet future challenges of food supply under a changing climate
A study of the impact of the in-trust agreements demonstrated the importance of a clear legal environment for the genebanks. Requests for repatriation of rice germplasm from the International Rice Research Institute peaked in 1994, during the period of uncertainty. This coincided with a period of...
Gotor, E.
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Caracciolo, F.
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Bioversity International
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[An empirical assessment of the effects of the 1994 In Trust Agreements on IRRI germplasm acquisition and distribution]
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An empirical assessment of the effects of the 1994 In Trust Agreements on IRRI germplasm acquisition and distribution
Brandes, R.
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Saghir, P.
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Galiè, Alessandra
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Barasa, V.
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[ILRI’s experience with the Crop and Goat Project in Tanzania from a gender perspective]
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ILRI’s experience with the Crop and Goat Project in Tanzania from a gender perspective
This paper outlines a general framework for analysing the distributional impact of commodity and factor price changes on the welfare of disaggregate households. The impact may be decomposed into an average effect and the departures from that average. The latter departures may be attributed to int...
Cranfield, J.A.L.
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Hertel, Thomas W.
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Preckel, P.V.
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Reimer, J.J.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Assessing the distributional impact of technical change in livestock and grains production in developing countries ]
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Assessing the distributional impact of technical change in livestock and grains production in developing countries
In India, children may soon have school lunches that include finger millet instead of their usual rice. In Bolivia, a popular restaurant chain is offering its customers a menu containing a variety of dishes made from cañahua, an ancient Andean grain. Though on different sides of the world, these ...
Bioversity International
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[Creating markets for orphan crops: Bioversity International supports marketing link in food value chain]
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Creating markets for orphan crops: Bioversity International supports marketing link in food value chain
At first glance, the village of Zèko in southern Benin is like most other villages in the region. Farmers grow two main crops: maize and cassava. Families are poor, mostly surviving on less than US$ 2 a day, a seemingly typical subsistence existence. But when a Bioversity International research t...
Bioversity International
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[Showing diversity counts with custom methodology: Bioversity International’s ‘Tale of the tail’]
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Showing diversity counts with custom methodology: Bioversity International’s ‘Tale of the tail’