Hanfets, a barley and wheat mixture in Eritrea: Yield, stability and farmer preferences

Woldeamlak, A.; Grando, S.; Maatougui, M.; Ceccarelli, Salvatore

doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2008.06.007

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“…Women were more preoccupied with addressing fast cooking and taste, whereas men focused more on field problems, including germination and specific adaptation, and market demand (7). By contrast, a different study (179) did not observe gender differences regarding preferences for high grain yield, earliness, short heads, low kernel weight, and short plants. However, in this study, no postharvest traits like cooking and taste were reported.…”

Section: Sociocultural Factors Influencing Crop Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 82%

Crop Biodiversity: An Unfinished Magnum Opus of Nature

Hufford

Teran

Gepts

2019

Annu. Rev. Plant Biol.

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Crop biodiversity is one of the major inventions of humanity through the process of domestication. It is also an essential resource for crop improvement to adapt agriculture to ever-changing conditions like global climate change and consumer preferences. Domestication and the subsequent evolution under cultivation have profoundly shaped the genetic architecture of this biodiversity. In this review, we highlight recent advances in our understanding of crop biodiversity. Topics include the reduction of genetic diversity during domestication and counteracting factors, a discussion of the relationship between parallel phenotypic and genotypic evolution, the role of plasticity in genotype × environment interactions, and the important role subsistence farmers play in actively maintaining crop biodiversity and in participatory breeding. Linking genotype and phenotype remains the holy grail of crop biodiversity studies.

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Section: Sociocultural Factors Influencing Crop Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 82%

Crop Biodiversity: An Unfinished Magnum Opus of Nature

Hufford

Teran

Gepts

2019

Annu. Rev. Plant Biol.

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“…This provides mutual protection from disease and lodging and improves the bread-making quality of the grain (Woldeamlak 2001). In addition, grain yield and yield stability are improved (Woldeamlak et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 98%

Crops that feed the world 4. Barley: a resilient crop? Strengths and weaknesses in the context of food security

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Barley is cultivated both in highly productive agricultural systems and also in marginal and subsistence environments. Its distribution is worldwide and is of considerable economic importance for animal feed and alcohol production. The overall importance of barley as a human food is minor but there is much potential for new uses exploiting the health benefits of whole grain and betaglucans. The barley supply chains are complex and show added value at many stages. Germplasm resources for barley are considerable, with much potential for exploitation of its biodiversity available through the use of recently developed genomic and breeding tools. Consequently, substantial gains in crucial sustainability characteristics should be achievable in the future, together with increased understanding of the physiological basis of many agronomic traits, particularly water and nutrient use efficiency.

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“…One of the salient features of traditional farming systems is their high degree of biodiversity, in particular the plant diversity in the form of poly-cultures and/or agroforestry patterns. One example of this traditional farming system is a mixture of barley and wheat known as hanfets, which is practiced since millennia in the Central Highlands of Eritrea and in the northern part of Ethiopia (Woldeamlak and Struik 2000;Woldeamlak 2001;Woldeamlak et al 2008). Farmers quote yield, yield stability, better resistance to lodging of barley, better resistance to rust of wheat, and better quality of the bread obtained from the mixture as the main reasons for growing this mixture.…”

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Participatory Breeding for Climate Change-Related Traits

Ceccarelli¹,

Galiè

Grando

2013

Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops

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After a review of the effects of climate changes on food security and agricultural production, the chapter relates modern plant breeding, as opposed to farmers' breeding practiced for millennia, with the decrease of agrobiodiversity. It underlines the contradiction between the unanimous recognition of the importance of biodiversity and the tendency towards uniformity of modern plant breeding, which, combined with the increased consolidation of the seed industry, is causing a dramatic decrease of cultivated biodiversity. This is exactly the opposite of what is required to adapt crops to climate changes. Although a suite of traits play an important role in the adaptation of crops to climate changes, it is also important to recognize that climate changes are a moving target and therefore the emphasis should not be so much on which trait to breed for but rather to adopt breeding strategies that allow a highly dynamic and efficient system of variety deployment in farmers' fields. Participatory plant breeding, whose technical aspects are described in detail, has the capability of increasing agricultural production at farm level by exploiting specific adaptation, thus increasing at the same time agrobiodiversity. Participatory plant breeding, integrated with evolutionary plant breeding, should become the model of plant breeding used by the plant breeding programs of the CGIAR centers.

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Hanfets, a barley and wheat mixture in Eritrea: Yield, stability and farmer preferences

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

Crop Biodiversity: An Unfinished Magnum Opus of Nature

Crop Biodiversity: An Unfinished Magnum Opus of Nature

Crops that feed the world 4. Barley: a resilient crop? Strengths and weaknesses in the context of food security

Participatory Breeding for Climate Change-Related Traits

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