Voluntary guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of crop wild relatives and wild food plants

Download or read book Voluntary guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of crop wild relatives and wild food plants written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crop wild relatives are potential sources of desirable traits for breeding well-adapted crop varieties while wild food plants are important components of the diets of many people worldwide. These guidelines provide recommendations for implementing a national conservation plan, ranging from inventorying the target species to conducting threat assessments. They will be useful for development practitioners, researchers, students and policy-makers