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Breeding and Productivity in Ending Hunger and Achieving Food Security and Nutrition

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Zero Hunger

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Breeding is the art of altering the original traits of plants or animals to produce desired characteristics to advance the quantity and/or quality of products for humans and animals’ benefits (Fehr 1987; Sleper and Poehlman 1995; Bernardo 2010). The US national association of plant breeders (https://www.plantbreeding.org/content/what-is-plant-breeding) define “plant breeding” as the science driven creative process of developing new plant varieties that include cultivar development, crop improvement, and seed improvement. Kor Oldenbroek and van der Waaij (2014) and Nature (https://www.nature.com/subjects/animal-breeding) define Animal Breeding as a process involving the selective mating of domestic animals with desirable genetic traits, to maintain or enhance these traits, with the intention to improve desirable (and heritable) qualities in the next generations. In plant and animals, breeding requires biological assessment in relevant target environments and knowledge of...

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  1. African Forest Forum (AFF), C/o World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya

    Marie Louise Avana-Tientcheu

  2. Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH)/Livestock Genetics-International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

    Christian Keambou Tiambo

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  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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Avana-Tientcheu, M.L., Tiambo, C.K. (2020). Breeding and Productivity in Ending Hunger and Achieving Food Security and Nutrition. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95675-6_59

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