This is the second annual report to be published under the name of Bioversity International. It provides a detailed overview of Bioversity's activities in agricultural biodiversity research aimed at improving the lives of current and future generations.
Bioversity went into 2007 in a less-than-optimal financial position. A combination of unforeseen circumstances, which reduced our expected income, left us below the recommended level of reserves. But the organization was well prepared, and we are very pleased to be able to report that we ended th...
Bioversity International
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[Bioversity International Annual Report 2009: Sustainable agriculture for food and nutrition security]
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Bioversity International Annual Report 2009: Sustainable agriculture for food and nutrition security
The Bioversity International Musa Germplasm Transit Centre (ITC) is home to the world’s largest collection of banana diversity.
Its mission? To contribute to the secure long-term conservation of the entire banana genepool and hold the collection in trust for the benefit of current and future gene...
Bioversity International
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[Safeguarding banana diversity at the Bioversity International Musa Germplasm Transit Centre]
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Safeguarding banana diversity at the Bioversity International Musa Germplasm Transit Centre
A community seed bank is a locally governed and managed, mostly informal institution whose core function is to maintain seeds for local use, strengthen local seed systems and support on-farm agrobiodiversity conservation. The objective of this study was to explore, from a farmer’s perspective, if...
Procuna Ferrer, A.
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Asociación de Organizaciones de los Cuchumatanes
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Bioversity International
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[¿Contribuyen las reservas comunitarias de semillas a la resiliencia socio-ecológica? – un caso de estudio en la Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Guatemala]
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¿Contribuyen las reservas comunitarias de semillas a la resiliencia socio-ecológica? – un caso de estudio en la Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Guatemala
This report provides highlights from a workshop entitled “Embedding mutually supportive implementation of the Plant Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol in the context of broader national policy goals. A workshop for national teams of policy actors”. The workshop brought together eleven national teams ...
ABS Capacity Development Initiative
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Bioversity International
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[Embedding mutually supportive implementation of the Plant Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol in the context of broader national policy goals: A Workshop for National Teams of Policy Actors, 16th – 20th November 2015]
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Embedding mutually supportive implementation of the Plant Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol in the context of broader national policy goals: A Workshop for National Teams of Policy Actors, 16th – 20th November 2015
The seventh meeting of the ECPGR Working Group (WG) on Allium took place on 6-8 September 2011 in Perea, near Thessaloniki, Greece, bringing together 14 members, 7 observers and the Coordinator of the initiative for “A European Genebank Integrated System” (AEGIS). The status of the European Alliu...
Keller, J.
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Astley, D.
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Tsivelikas, A.
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Engels, J.
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Lipman, E.
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Bioversity International
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[Report of a Working Group on Allium: Seventh Meeting, 6-8 September 2011, Perea, Thessaloniki, Greece]
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Report of a Working Group on Allium: Seventh Meeting, 6-8 September 2011, Perea, Thessaloniki, Greece
This report summarizes the policy, research and capacity development activities that research teams from Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda and partner organizations will jointly carry out for the project “Strengthening national capacities to impl...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Bioversity International
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[Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Report of the first project planning workshop, 6-10 February 2012, Rome, Italy]
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Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Report of the first project planning workshop, 6-10 February 2012, Rome, Italy
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions of a diverse group of 20 researchers from academic institutions in China involved in national and international policy and law development related to agricultural biodiversity. Based on three field project experiences, the current instituti...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Zhang Zongwen
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Song Yiching
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Bioversity International
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[Policies of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: China and the world: Report of a workshop, 1 December 2011, Beijing, China]
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Policies of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: China and the world: Report of a workshop, 1 December 2011, Beijing, China
Several universities in East and Southeast Asia established Master’s programmes on plant genetic resources (PGR) in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since then, new policy instruments such as International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture have entered into force. Research...
Rudebjer, P.G.
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Watanabe, K.
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Sebastian, L.
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Bioversity International
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University of Tsukuba
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[Reviewing plant genetic resources education in East and Southeast Asia: Proceedings of an International workshop, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 17 -19 November 2009]
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Reviewing plant genetic resources education in East and Southeast Asia: Proceedings of an International workshop, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 17 -19 November 2009