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Professor to speak on agrobiodiversity and indigenous knowledge
A seminar on Indigenous Knowledge Human-Environmental Change and Agrobiodiversity at Penn state University
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Professor Zimmerer is a geographer and an environmental and earth-systems scientist, whose research, teaching and outreach are centered on global human-environmental change …
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World Water Day 2012: CBD Executive Secretary recognizes importance of agricultural biodiversity in meeting challenging water situation
World Water Day: 22 March 2012. In his message on the occasion of World Water Day 2012 “Water and Food Security”, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Mr. Braulio Ferreira De Souza Dias, recognizes the importance of the different roles agricultural biodiversity can play in water-use efficiency, water retention in soils and [...]
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Chepang Food Culture: Contribution of Wild Edible and Neglected Plant Species
Chepangs are an indigenous ethnic group living in central and southern Nepal.
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Amongst the agricultural systems practiced, shifting cultivation. Chepangs live in the proximity of forests, depending upon it for food and other livelihood needs.
This publication brings together the traditional knowledge of the Chepang people regarding the wild edible and neglected plant species. Similarly,
the proximate nutrient [...]
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Postgraduate study in Sustainable Agriculture at CSU, Australia
Australia’s Charles Sturt University postgraduate programme is keen to expand its numbers of international students and global reach of its courses.
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Masters of Sustainable Agriculture programme. This MSA programme is eligible for the AusAID Development Scholarship whereby courses on agriculture and rural development are priority sectors for a number of Asian countries included in this list [...]
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The value of plant genetic diversity to resource-poor farmers in Nepal and Vietnam
From the abstract on line
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Genetic resources for food and agriculture are the biological basis of world food and nutrition security; and they directly or indirectly support the livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people. [...] The economic value of genetic diversity for productivity and yield traits is discussed in the literature. However, it is difficult to [...]
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International Potato Center is seeking a scientist to head the CIP Genebank
The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking a dynamic scientist to head the potato, sweetpotato and Andean root and tuber crops (ARTCs) germplasm bank. In close collaboration with CIP colleagues and public, private and international partners, the position has responsibilities to implement CIP’s vision to conserve, expand, characterize and distribute the world’s largest collection of [...]
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