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Resources Tagged: Seed Sources

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  1. Seed Provision & Agricultural Development

    2001-01-20 Many of the current controversies over globalization, intellectual property protection, biotechnology and the future of farming are played out in seed provision. This book examines seed management in traditional farming systems, reviews the history of formal plant breeding and the origins of seed...
    Seed Sources Seeds Agricultural innov... Seed industry and ...

  2. Seed banks and seed swaps - focusing worldwide on healthy local seed systems

    2017-05-22 Seed availability for small-scale farmers can be unpredictable and unreliable. Commercial products are often out of reach financially or geographically and can lead to loss of biodiversity. ECHO's seed banks provide sample packets of seeds to evaluate for potential crop production in challenging...
    Seeds Seed Fair Seed Bank Seed Exchange Seed Sources Seed Saving

  3. Strengthening Informal Indigenous Seed Systems in Southeast Asia

    With support from USAID’s Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (Hort CRSP), Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization’s Asia Impact Center (ECHO Asia), Maejo University, Thailand, and the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) initiated efforts in 2010 to begin strengthening...
    Seed Sources Asia

  4. TN #39 Introducing New Seeds Overseas

    Key Resource
    2000-01-21 ECHO is frequently asked, by groups or individuals from North America, to suggest vegetable seeds to take with them on short trips overseas. Often the group is a “work team” that is being sent by a church. Someone with the group they are going to visit has asked them to bring vegetable seeds. Or...
    Vegetables Seed Sources Seed Selection Gardening Seeds JCB

  5. Seed2Save: An ‘Old School’ Approach to Vegetable Seed Development

    2018-11-15 To empower persons working among rural farmers and gardeners in developing nations. One limiting factor is the availability of affordable quality seed of varieties well suited to the climate and culture. Seed2Save is Mike’s approach to make selections of open-pollinated varieties within target...
    Seed Sources Seeds Random Mass Selection Population Breeding

  6. Cornucopia II

    Key Resource 1998-11-20 Complete reference and source book of edible plants of the world, invaluable to gardeners, cooks, economic botanists, those in the specialty and gourmet foods business. Includes 3,000 species and 7,000 varieties of food plants. More than 1300 catalog sources for seeds, plants and food products...
    Varieties plants Edible Plants Seed Sources Germplasm Food Crops

  7. Filsan Somalia

    Producing and Marketing Quality & Superior Seed Varieties to Somali Farmers Our vision is to lead the Somali agricultural sector in providing appropriate and affordable seed alongside complementary technologies in support of farming as a business.
    Seed Sources Somalia East Africa

  8. LEISA Magazine Vol 15 #3/4

    1999-12-19 Seeds for agrobiodiversity Collaboration Biodiversity i agriculture Genes Seed shortages threaten organic farming Bean Seed systems Genetic variability in rice Seed selection Genetic resources conservation Seed fairs Andean tubers
    Genetic Resources Seed Sources