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In the past few years, many studies have reported the importance of Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) and the need to preserve them, suggesting different criteria for their selection and protocols for their conservation. The relevance of CWRs essentially responds to the need to guarantee food security through...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2013
The European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) (formerly "European Cooperative Programme for Crop Genetic Resources Networks - ECP/GR) was founded in 1980 on the basis of the recommendations of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Food and Agriculture Organization...
Category: Strategies and Action Plans
Regions: Europe
Publication year: N/A
Webinar – As one of the series of The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) webinars, GFAR Secretariat is bringing together several presenters to engage the agri-food research and innovation community around the topic of Farmers’ Rights, and especially how to achieve the complementarity between...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
This document outlines the national biodiversity strategies and action plan that Bhutan has formulated. According to the country's developmental philosophy dubbed Gross National Happiness, environmental conservation is one of the four pillars of this philosophy, ensuring that development is never achieved...
Category: Legislation and policies, Directives
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2014
Over the last 50 years there has been a growing appreciation of the important role that farmers play in the development and conservation of crop genetic diversity, and the contribution of that diversity to agro-ecosystem resilience and food security. This book examines policies that aim to increase the...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2016