The initiative to bring experts together to discuss the consequences of changes in the roles and responsibilities of genebanks led to this publication. It is hopes that the ideas put forward lead to more critical balanced and creative approach towards genebank operations on the part of genebank c...
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
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[Newsletter for Asia, the Pacific and Oceania: No. 40, January-April 2003]
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Newsletter for Asia, the Pacific and Oceania: No. 40, January-April 2003
FAO and IBPGR have been cooperating since the early 1970s to strengthen national capabilities in ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources. In 1991, the Commission on Plant Genetic Resources considered it ”essential that appropriate standards be developed for genebanks operating within the ...
Lipman, E.
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Jongen, W.M.
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Hintum, T.J.L. van
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Gass, T.
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Maggioni, L.
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European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
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[Central crop databases: tools for plant genetic resources management: Report of a workshop, 13-16 October 1996, Budapest, Hungary]
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Central crop databases: tools for plant genetic resources management: Report of a workshop, 13-16 October 1996, Budapest, Hungary
In Nepal, community seed banks have a long and rich history. Supported in particular by a number of non-government organizations and more recently, also by government agencies, they can be found across the country from the lowland terai to the high hill areas and from east to west. The latest cou...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Shrestha, P.
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Chaudhary, P.
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[Community seed banks in Nepal past, present, future: Proceedings of a National Workshop, 14-15 June 2012, Pokhara, Nepal]
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Community seed banks in Nepal past, present, future: Proceedings of a National Workshop, 14-15 June 2012, Pokhara, Nepal
The paper interrogates the role of community seed banks (CSBs) and related initiatives in the realization of farmers' rights in Uganda and the policy and legislative space for the functioning of CSBs. The study finds that although community seed banks are a relatively new phenomenon in Uganda, th...
Otieno, G.A.
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Kiwuka, C.
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Mulumba, J.W.
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[Realizing farmers' rights through community seed banks in Uganda: experiences and policy issues]
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Realizing farmers' rights through community seed banks in Uganda: experiences and policy issues
In 1975, the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources created the first internationally linked system of genebanks, known as the Registry of Base Collections (RBC), to conserve plant germplasm and make it available globally for agricultural research and development. Over time, internationa...
Thormann, I.
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Engels, I.
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Halewood, Michael
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[Are the old International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) base collections available through the Plant Treaty’s multilateral system of access and benefit sharing? A review]
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Are the old International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) base collections available through the Plant Treaty’s multilateral system of access and benefit sharing? A review
A collection of 64 accessions of the South American pasture legume Aeschynomene histrix Poiret was characterized in 1995 at Ibadan in south-west Nigeria in order to test the potential of the accessions as forage plants in subhumid areas and as a trap crop for the parasitic plant Striga hermonthic...
Merkel, U
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Peters, Michael
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Schultze-Kraft, Rainer
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Berner, D.K.
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[Characterization of a collection of Aeschynomene histrix in subhumid Nigeria]
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Characterization of a collection of Aeschynomene histrix in subhumid Nigeria