This flyer describes one community’s success story of crop conservation. G. fusca, also known as madan, is used as a spice in India and as soup flavouring in Malaysia, but it was the Thai who discovered the most unique way of using the madan stem. A chicken is impaled on a madan stick and grilled...
Hom, S.
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Lamers, H.
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Yoovatana, M.
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Nimkingrat, T.
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Somsri, S.
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Sthapit, B.
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[Local foods and markets support conservation of Garcinia fusca L. in Sisaket Province, Thailand]
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Local foods and markets support conservation of Garcinia fusca L. in Sisaket Province, Thailand
On-farm (in situ) conservation of cultivated plants refers to the management of landraces/cultivars and the occasionally cultivated wild relatives (as in the case of fruit species like mango) in the very place where they developed their present-day characteristics. Fruit tree varieties and relate...
Sthapit, B.
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Lamers, H.
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Reddy, M.B.C.
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Idris, S.
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Somsri, S.
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Sutrisno Saad, N.
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Ramanatha Rao, V.
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[Empowering community and rural institutions for on-farm conservation and sustainable use of cultivated and wild tropical fruit diversity in Asia]
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Empowering community and rural institutions for on-farm conservation and sustainable use of cultivated and wild tropical fruit diversity in Asia
This flyer gives good insight into the value of mother tree maintenance for a specific rootstock, how it is maintained and used successfully in the field, how it contributes to the livelihoods and well-being of many rural households. The ‘Conservation and Sustainable Use of Cultivated and Wild Tr...
Sthapit, B.
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Hom, S.
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Singh, I.P.
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Ramanatha Rao, V.
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Lamers, H.
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[Learning from old practices and local farmers to improve and assure rootstock quality of Nagpur mandarin saplings: Performance of Nagpur mandarin buds on Rangpur lime (C. limonia) and Rough lemon (C. jambhiri) rootstock]
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Learning from old practices and local farmers to improve and assure rootstock quality of Nagpur mandarin saplings: Performance of Nagpur mandarin buds on Rangpur lime (C. limonia) and Rough lemon (C. jambhiri) rootstock
The aim of this paper is to put the vision of future task sharing among genebanks and other germplasm collection holders in Europe into the context of its possible implementation process. The paper aims at raising awareness and encouraging further debate about the technical and policy issues asso...
European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
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Bioversity International
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[A strategic framework for the Implementation of a European Genebank Integrated System (AEGIS): A policy guide]
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A strategic framework for the Implementation of a European Genebank Integrated System (AEGIS): A policy guide
CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources Programme
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[A de facto certificate of source - The Standard Material Transfer Agreement under the International Treaty: Policy Brief - January 2007]
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A de facto certificate of source - The Standard Material Transfer Agreement under the International Treaty: Policy Brief - January 2007
The CGIAR engages in a number of activities to develop and exchange information, transfer technologies, and strengthen the capacities of research partners and beneficiaries related to the sustainable use of PGRFA , with the particular objective of improving food security and livelihoods of the ru...
Regmi, A.
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Ellul, Philippe
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Halewood, Michael
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[CGIAR services to enhance capacity building, technology transfer and information exchange related to Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing. Geneva (Switzerland) 9-11 Dec 2014]
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CGIAR services to enhance capacity building, technology transfer and information exchange related to Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing. Geneva (Switzerland) 9-11 Dec 2014
This Info Note summarizes the findings of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) interventions in Nyando Climate-Smart Village (CSV) targeting smallholder farmers with climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approaches to help them better manage their farms, a...
Musembi, Elly K
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[Demand for agricultural credit by rural households: Findings from a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) survey in the Nyando Basin, Kenya]
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Demand for agricultural credit by rural households: Findings from a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) survey in the Nyando Basin, Kenya
At the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Bali, CCAFS, IFAD and USDA-FAS organized the Side event “Accelerating innovation development and scaling climate-smart agriculture to drive a transformation in food systems”. High-level representatives of > 20 governments, resea...
Koerner, Jana
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Firmian, Ilaria
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Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin
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[Accelerating innovation development and scaling processes for agricultural transformation]
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Accelerating innovation development and scaling processes for agricultural transformation
Un travail de recherche mené en 2017 avec l’accompagnement de l’International Water Management Institute par Letisia Somda, étudiante du Master Agrinovia à l’Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo à Ouagadougou, s’est intéressé au fonctionnement d’une institution locale de gestion de l’eau, le Comité Local d...
Somda, Letisia
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Garane, Amidou
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Debevec, Liza
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[Les CLE, institutions locales pertinentes mais peu fonctionnelles de gestion de l’eau]
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Les CLE, institutions locales pertinentes mais peu fonctionnelles de gestion de l’eau
• Water Spreading Weirs: To capture and spread
the torrential flood emerging in the neighboring
highlands to low-lying rangelands and crop fields,
five weirs were built based on land suitability studies.
• Working together: Joint planning and execution
between community leaders, landscape and cro...