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Traditional seed management practices are often viewed as the most reliable genetic resource conservation strategy. For many small-scale farmers, crop ...
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Promote in situ conservation of wild crop relatives and wild plants for food production, including in protected areas, by supporting, inter alia ... creating strong links to plant breeding and agricultural development in order to reduce crop vulnerability and genetic erosion, and promote increased world food production compatible with sustainable ...
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IELRC.ORG - The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
PGRFA, promote in situ conservation of wild crop relatives and wild plants for food production, and cooperate to promote the development of an efficient ...
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WWF - Using protected areas to secure our food
Contemporary breeders are increasingly searching the gene pool of crop relatives for these desirable traits. Both landraces and CWR thus serve as the world's repositories of crop genetic diversity and represent ...
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Mutant Red Herrings? (Do or Die)
GMOs cannot be kept apart from their wild and cultivated relatives Transfer of Gene to Non-Gmo Crops Field tests with genetically engineered potatoes have ... environmental risk assessment for genetically modified plants with special reference to oilseed rape. Scottish Crop Research Institute, Annual Report 1994. SCRI, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland. 3. Crawley M (1996) 'The ...
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Howzat! (Do or Die)
The entire crop of the test site was destroyed. The successful action is seen as the first in ... releases genetic pollution into the wild. The genetically manipulated plants could cross breed with wild relatives, and so pass on some of their new characteristics. Once this has happened, it will ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Few studies have assessed the ... for the conservation of resources, to offset the impacts of climate change. Opportunities to change crop types and introduce more efficient irrigation are among the most promising. Human activity can ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Tajikistan) are centers of origin for many crop and fruit-tree species; as such, they are important sources of genes for the wild relatives. Few studies are available to assess the ...
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Policies which affect adaptive strategies
Eventually, the possibility for learning from traditional practices and crop species may be lost, and the added security to livelihoods which these crop varieties represent will also be lost. Research and ... education facilities. Other impacts may come indirectly as a result of reduced remittances from urban relatives, as the latter's own real incomes decline. Urban remittances are a common part of ...
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will crop biopharmaceuticals persist in the wild
North America. Intense crop biopharmaceuticals production in an area such as Kamloops potentially spreads its genes to canola and its wild weedy relatives.The first product released for ... browsing predators including human. The protein product is likely to pollute surface and groundwater as crop plant roots and leaves decompose and the debris from drying plant parts will be ...
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