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Vegetable Seed Supply and Selection in Humanitarian Response

Vegetable seeds are increasingly used to advance nutrition and income goals in humanitarian response. Understanding crop choice and how seeds aresourced and supplied can support these interventions. 1 Seed Supply: Commercial Worldwide, commercial vegetable seed supply is narrow, with

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Saving Seeds: Factors to Consider

Saving vegetable seeds: Factors to considerDavid A. Bender, Ph.D.The development of agriculture from prehistoric times to the present was built on theselection, collection, and replanting of seeds from superior plants. Even in a time ofspecialized commercial seed production, advanced

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Seed Saving

Saving Vegetable SeedsJulian HoyleSeeds of some vegetables can be saved. If the seed packet is labeled as “Hybrid”, seed should not be saved, because crops grown from those saved seeds will not always be the same as the hybrid

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Adaptation of Vegetable Crops in Climatic Regions

Vegetable crops come from a wide range of plant families and regions of origin, so it is natural that some vegetables are better suited to a given location than others. Adaptability is affected by when the crop can be

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Vegetables and Nutrition

The Role of Vegetables in Good Nutrition “Diversifying consumption to include nutritious fruits, vegetables, and nuts can greatly enhance the quality of predominantly grain-based diets that otherwise are unable to sustain a person in good health.” Dr. Fred Bliss,

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Vegetable Seed Supply and Selection in Humanitarian Response

Saving Seeds: Factors to Consider

Seed Saving

Adaptation of Vegetable Crops in Climatic Regions

Vegetables and Nutrition

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