Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge for Food Security

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Salgotra, Romesh Kumar (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gupta, Bharat Bhushan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant genetics.; Plant breeding.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Sustainable Development.

With exponentially increasing population across the globe and shrinking resources, the concern of food security is looming large over the world community. To catch up with the fierce pace of growth in all the sectors of development, ensuring uninhibited availability of food resources is a prime agen...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Plant genetic resources and traditional knowledge: Potentials and challenges
• Chapter 2 Role of plant genetic resources and traditional knowledge in food security
• Chapter 3 Global strategies for sustainable use of agricultural genetic and indigenous traditional knowledge
• Chapter 4 Plant genetic resources and intellectual properties of indigenous knowledge conservation (ITK)
• Chapter 5 Farmers' Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge for livelihood
• Chapter 6 Plant genetic resources, traditional knowledge and their use in crop improvement
• Chapter 7 Biotechnological approaches for conservation of plant genetic resources and ITK
• Chapter 8 Ex situ and in situ conservation of Plant Genetic Resources and ITK
• Chapter 9 Access and benefit sharing on the use of indigenous traditional knowledge
• Chapter 10 Plant genetic resources conservation and ITK in light of recent policy developments
• Chapter 11 Plant Genetic Resources and ITK conservation towards resilience to climate change
• Chapter 12 Rational of participatory approaches for the management of plant genetic resources and ITK
• Chapter 13 Bio prospecting of genetic resources and indigenous traditional knowledge
• Chapter 14 Role of women in Plant Genetic Resources and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge for food security
• Chapter 15 International treaties for sustainable utilization of Plant Genetic Resources and ITK. .