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Global ex-situ crop diversity conservation and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: assessing the current status by Westengen, Ola T, Jeppson, Simon, Guarino, Luigi

“…Ex-situ conservation of crop diversity is a global concern, and the development of an efficient and sustainable conservation system is a historic priority…”
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Nutritional and Antinutritional Potentials of Sorghum: A Comparative Study among Different Sorghum Landraces of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia by Semere, Tesfakiros, Tsehaye, Yemane, Tareke, Lijalem, Westengen, Ola T, Fjellheim, Siri

“…Sorghum is one of the staple food crops in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. Despite this, limited research attention was given to the nutritional and antinutritional…”
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Exchange and experimentation: community seed banks strengthen farmers' seed systems in Northern Malawi by Vansant, Emilie C., Bezner Kerr, Rachel, Sørensen, Helle, Phiri, Isaiah, Westengen, Ola T.

“…In Sub-Saharan Africa, the cultivation of local crop varieties persists despite a political environment that favours commercial seed system development to…”
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Ethnolinguistic structuring of sorghum genetic diversity in Africa and the role of local seed systems by Westengen, Ola T., Okongo, Mark Atam, Onek, Leo, Berg, Trygve, Upadhyaya, Hari, Birkeland, Siri, Khalsa, Siri Dharma Kaur, Ring, Kristoffer H., Stenseth, Nils C., Brysting, Anne K.

“…Significance This paper shows that cultural factors play a key role in shaping the genetic structure in sorghum. We present molecular evidence of close…”
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Navigating toward resilient and inclusive seed systems by Westengen, Ola T, Dalle, Sarah Paule, Mulesa, Teshome Hunduma

“…Food systems face new climatic and socioecological challenges and farmers need a diversity of new plant varieties to respond to these. While plant breeding is…”
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From Policy Promises to Result through Innovation in African Agriculture? by Haug, Ruth, Nchimbi-Msolla, Susan, Murage, Alice, Moeletsi, Mokhele, Magalasi, Mufunanji, Mutimura, Mupenzi, Hundessa, Feyisa, Cacchiarelli, Luca, Westengen, Ola T.

“…The problem addressed in this paper is the challenge of moving from formulating policy goals to achieving the promised results. The purpose is to assess the…”
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Spatial structure and climatic adaptation in African maize revealed by surveying SNP diversity in relation to global breeding and landrace panels by Westengen, Ola T, Berg, Paul R, Kent, Matthew P, Brysting, Anne K

“…Climate change threatens maize productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. To ensure food security, access to locally adapted genetic resources and varieties is an…”
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Taking measure of an escape crop: Cassava relationality in a contemporary quilombo-remnant community by Roman, Gabriel Graton, Westengen, Ola T.

“…•In the quilombola community Espírito Santo do Itá, cassava is central to the organization of social and working life.•The specific relationality between the…”
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The imperial maize assemblage: maize dialectics in Malawi and India by Jakobsen, Jostein, Westengen, Ola T.

“…The 'grain hypothesis', postulated by James Scott, suggests that cereals are 'political crops' intrinsic to state formation. Drawing the classical agrarian…”
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The political ecology of crops: From seed to state and capital by Fischer, Klara, Jakobsen, Jostein, Westengen, Ola T.

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Inventory of on-farm sorghum landrace diversity and climate adaptation in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: implications for sorghum breeding and conservation by Semere, Tesfakiros, Fjellheim, Siri, Tsehaye, Yemane, Westengen, Ola T.

“…The study was conducted with the aim of inventorying and assessing the level of sorghum landraces richness, estimating the extent and patterns of phenotypic…”
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Against the grain? A historical institutional analysis of access governance of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in Ethiopia by Mulesa, Teshome H., Westengen, Ola T.

“…Farmers' and breeders' access to a genetic diversity is essential for food system sustainability. The implementation of international agreements regulating…”
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Safeguarding a global seed heritage from Syria to Svalbard by Westengen, Ola T., Lusty, Charlotte, Yazbek, Mariana, Amri, Ahmed, Asdal, Åsmund

“…Crop diversity underpins food security and adaptation to climate change. Concerted conservation efforts are needed to maintain and make this diversity…”
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Crop adaptation to climate change in the semi-arid zone in Tanzania: the role of genetic resources and seed systems by Westengen, Ola T, Brysting, Anne K

“…BACKGROUND: Rural livelihoods relying on agriculture are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Climate models project increasingly negative effects on…”
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Genetic diversity and geographic pattern in early South American cotton domestication by WESTENGEN, Ola T, HUAMAN, Zosimo, HEUN, Manfred

“…Amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting was applied to survey the genetic diversity of primitive South American Gossypium barbadense cotton for…”
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Modern maize varieties going local in the semi-arid zone in Tanzania by Westengen, Ola T, Ring, Kristoffer H, Berg, Paul R, Brysting, Anne K

“…Maize is the most produced crop in Sub-Saharan Africa, but yields are low and climate change is projected to further constrain smallholder production. The…”
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The history of hunger: Counting calories to make global food security legible by Iversen, Thor Olav, Westengen, Ola T., Jerven, Morten

“…•The PoU has made world hunger legible and enabled ease of interpretation of a global problem.•The indicator has served as an important tool to legitimize the…”
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Global Ex-Situ Crop Diversity Conservation and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Assessing the Current Status. e64146 by Westengen, Ola T, Jeppson, Simon, Guarino, Luigi

“…Ex-situ conservation of crop diversity is a global concern, and the development of an efficient and sustainable conservation system is a historic priority…”
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