Enhancing Crop Genepool Use
Enhancing Crop Genepool Use

Author: Nigel Maxted

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1780646135

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Maintaining food security in the face of human population increase and climate change is one of the critical challenges facing us in the 21st Century. Utilisation of the full range of agrobiodiversity will be a necessary tool in addressing this challenge. In this book a team of international contributors review all aspects of utilization and conservation of crop wild relative (CWR) and landrace (LR) diversity as a basis for crop improvement and future food security. This book will appeal to a wide array of specialists and postgraduate students, such as those working in the fields of agrobiodiversity conservation and use, conservation, ecology, botany, genetics, plant breeding and agriculture.

The Second Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
The Second Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 9251065349

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Plant genetic resources provide a basis for food security, livelihood support and economic development as a major component of biodiversity. The Second Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture demonstrates the central role plant genetic diversity continues to play in shaping agriculture growth in the face of climate change and other environmental challenges. It is based on information gathered from Country Reports, regional syntheses, thematic studie s and scientific literature, documenting the major achievements made in this sector during the past decade and identifying the critical gaps and needs that should urgently be addressed. The Report provides the decision-makers with a technical basis for updating the Global Plan of Action on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. It also aims to attract the attention of the global community to set priorities for the effective management of plant genet ic resources for the future. Purchase a print copy.

Ensuring A Square Meal: Women And Food Security In Southeast Asia
Ensuring A Square Meal: Women And Food Security In Southeast Asia

Author: Theresa W Devasahayam

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9813231912

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Research on women and food security in Southeast Asia has been limited. The collection of chapters in Ensuring a Square Meal: Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia is one of the first attempts at providing a lens into the linkages between women and food security at the household, community, national, and transnational levels. More broadly, the chapters examine women's contribution in households, resource distribution to produce food, and the purchasing power to buy food. In analysing the various facets of food security in relation to gender, the analyses focus on the meanings of 'private' and 'public', and the extent to which the effects of the two spheres spill over into each other. Given women's critical role in food production and provision, the book assesses the structural forces enabling women to access productive resources and, in turn, ensure sustainable strategies for food security; as well as it evaluates how governments might address the constraints women face in this vital role.

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Agricultural Policies in Viet Nam 2015
OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Agricultural Policies in Viet Nam 2015

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9264235159

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This review assesses the performance of Vietnamese agriculture over the last two decades, evaluates Vietnamese agricultural policy reforms, discusses the policy framework for sustainable investment in agriculture and provides recommendations to address key challenges in the future.