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Crop diversity is threatened for many of the same reasons as biological diversity: habitat loss, increased globalization, human induced species selection and increased market integration. However, crop genetic diversity ...
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My Own Food Chain - Liberty Prairie Conservancy
Introduction Food Chain Introduction Food Chain Detectives Plant Needs of Life Plant Party Party Crop Diversity Planning the Plot Everyone has a Chore! Nutrient Management Sowing Seeds Planting the Garden Introduction ...
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slide show - primalseeds
The FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation) estimates that 75% of agricultural crop diversity was lost during the 20th century. home Today, 1.4 billion people rely on ... mechanisation and chemical management. home Such uniformity invites crop failure as pests and diseases spread easier, once the buffer of diversity is removed home Breeders tend to work with predictable ...
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SAVE Foundation
Since 1996 she is working with the Information Centre for Biological Diversity (IBV, former Information Centre for Genetic Resources) in Bonn. Her focus is on the ... a member of the German Network for the Conservation and Recultivation of Crop Diversity (KERN), the Association for the Conservation of Crop Diversity (VEN), and the Society for the Conservation of Old and ...
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ENB @ ITPGR GB-1; 12-16 June 2006; Madrid, Spain; Highlights for Friday, 16 June 2006
Global Crop Diversity Trust; a model agreement with the IARCs of the CGIAR and other international ... and European delegates discuss their positions. Shivaji Pandey (FAO) and Fernando Gerbasi (Global Crop Diversity Trust) sign the relationship agreement between the Governing Body and the GCDT. ...
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For many, the choice to grow diverse native crops resulted from the unaffordable initial ... failures of Green Revolution technologies. For all of the seed keepers, the choice to maintain crop diversity has been a political statement—a statement of self-reliance and independent control over ...
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Farmers select, save and exchange the best seeds from a good crop to plant them again at the next sowing. Corporatisation of seed and agriculture is ... engineered seeds like Terminator, Bt Cotton, genetically engineered rice varieties, which could totally wipe out crop diversity, destroy beneficial species, create super weeds and super pests, create new health hazards for ...
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EcoEarth.Info Environment Links: Sustainability/Ecology/Genetic Diversity
Environment Links: Sustainability/Ecology/Genetic Diversity Skip to Content EcoEarth.Info Environment Portal & Search Engine Empowering the Environmental Sustainability Movement ... > Sustainability > Ecology > Genetic Diversity Links Global Crop Diversity Trust, The editor's pick http://www.croptrust.org/main/ seeks to to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security ...
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Plant Diversity Challenge- Objective 2 - conserving plant diversity
Controlling non- native species 3: Using Plant Diversity Sustainably 4: Promoting Education and Awareness 5: Building Capacity Return results 10 25 50 100 Having problems? Objective 2: Conserving Plant Diversity Plant diversity ...
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breeding plants for diversity
RESOURCES sitemap books links search US contact us our aims logo/banner Carrying out diversity trials and engaging with plant breeding. Little known potato varieties. People in the Andes ... flourish. Farming communities carrying out potatoe diversity trials in Peru. Every pattern of agriculture and every agricultural method is associated with certain crops and crop varieties that make it work and ...
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