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… and aquaculture. Some production systems use genetically modified varieties and breeds. Moreover, relatively few crop … patenting, and other intellectual property systems, to living organisms has led to the widespread cultivation and … in farmers’ and consumers’ perceptions, preferences and living conditions; ≠ marginalization of small-scale, diverse …

… through participatory plant breeding, the community has modified maize varieties to make corn grains uniform and …

… or cryopreservation (see Box 1.2).32 The maintenance of living collections requires large inputs of labour and time, … protection – large area of unmodified or slightly modified land and/or sea, retaining its natural … to the description of the essential properties of an organism or system.10 In the context of PGRFA it involves …

… ‘“Biological diversity’ means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, … to offspring. ‘Units of heredity’ are those parts of a living organism that possess the quality to pass traits, such as DNA …