Agrobiodiversity Management for Climate Change
April 27th, 2011 | Featured, middle, News, Publications
Chapter by R. Ortiz on how to adapt to climate change and how to cope with it.
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April 27th, 2011 | Featured, middle, News, Publications
Chapter by R. Ortiz on how to adapt to climate change and how to cope with it.
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March 26th, 2010 | Publications
The superiority of modern crop varieties is so taken for granted that older cultivars and landraces are typically relegated to the status of seedbank acquisitions. This model of active commercial breeding and seedbanks as reserves is simple and also simplistic. One flaw is that when modern cultivars fail seedbanks are not necessarily able to step [...]
More »December 18th, 2009 | General, News
A vigil rally in Booni, northern Chitral, Pakistan was organized with Chitral Association for Mountain Area Tourism (CAMAT) to show support and solidarity with the climate change conference in Copenhagen as well as to highlight the challenges of climate change already faced by communities in the Hindu Kush Mountains. The region has already seen considerable [...]
More »December 17th, 2009 | General, News
Cary Fowler’s (Global Crop Diversity Trust) article in The Huffington Post laments the lack of attention to agriculture at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen even with strong scientific consensus that climate change will have significantly adverse impacts on food production. “The impact on food crops from higher temperatures alone could result in the [...]
More »December 17th, 2009 | Publications, Uncategorized
During the 12th Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture a preliminary version paper was submitted titled the Impact of Climate Change on Countries’ Interdependence on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The paper, edited by Sam Fujisaka, David Williams and Michael Halewood, investigates the impact of climate change on countries’ interdependence on genetic [...]
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