Commercial cultivars and farmers’ access to crop diversity: A case study from the Nordic region
Agricultural diversification is one way of meeting the future challenges associated with climate change and population growth, making farmers’ access to a diversity of high-yielding, good quality cultivars critical. In this paper we provide an overview of the seed system in the Nordic region from th...
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| description | Agricultural diversification is one way of meeting the future challenges associated with climate change and population growth, making farmers’ access to a diversity of high-yielding, good quality cultivars critical. In this paper we provide an overview of the seed system in the Nordic region from the 1950 to the present. The emphasis
is on breeding businesses and their production of cultivars. Key primary sources have been the national variety lists, other written sources on plant breeding, and a survey. We document how enterprises have merged and how this consolidation process has affected the production of new cultivars and led to an emphasis on major crops, resulting in the abandonment of breeding activities for several other crops. The results are discussed in relation to structures and in the broader context of agrobiodiversity issues in peripheral regions of the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5350e707daf84c099550c1a38edc334c2022-12-22T03:05:33ZengScientific Agricultural Society of FinlandAgricultural and Food Science1459-60671795-18952015-06-0124210.23986/afsci.48629Commercial cultivars and farmers’ access to crop diversity: A case study from the Nordic regionSvein Oivind Solberg0Line Breian1Nordic Genetic Resource CenterUniversity of GothenburgAgricultural diversification is one way of meeting the future challenges associated with climate change and population growth, making farmers’ access to a diversity of high-yielding, good quality cultivars critical. In this paper we provide an overview of the seed system in the Nordic region from the 1950 to the present. The emphasis is on breeding businesses and their production of cultivars. Key primary sources have been the national variety lists, other written sources on plant breeding, and a survey. We document how enterprises have merged and how this consolidation process has affected the production of new cultivars and led to an emphasis on major crops, resulting in the abandonment of breeding activities for several other crops. The results are discussed in relation to structures and in the broader context of agrobiodiversity issues in peripheral regions of the world.https://journal.fi/afs/article/view/48629agricultureagrobiodiversityclimate changeperipheryplant breedingpractice story |
| spellingShingle | Svein Oivind Solberg Line Breian Commercial cultivars and farmers’ access to crop diversity: A case study from the Nordic region Agricultural and Food Science agriculture agrobiodiversity climate change periphery plant breeding practice story |
| title | Commercial cultivars and farmers’ access to crop diversity: A case study from the Nordic region |
| title_full | Commercial cultivars and farmers’ access to crop diversity: A case study from the Nordic region |
| title_fullStr | Commercial cultivars and farmers’ access to crop diversity: A case study from the Nordic region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Commercial cultivars and farmers’ access to crop diversity: A case study from the Nordic region |
| title_short | Commercial cultivars and farmers’ access to crop diversity: A case study from the Nordic region |
| title_sort | commercial cultivars and farmers access to crop diversity a case study from the nordic region |
| topic | agriculture agrobiodiversity climate change periphery plant breeding practice story |
| url | https://journal.fi/afs/article/view/48629 |
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