Total Record Found: 53
The Chatham House Dialogue comprised three separate sessions that aimed to build a vision of how genebanks can play a fuller and more effective role in helping agriculture meet future challenges. Special attention was...
- Type: Multimedia
- Conservation Food security Genebanks Agriculture
The Global Tree Assessment aims to assess the conservation status of every known tree species. Thirty-one percent of all the world’s trees are still lacking an assessment of extinction risk. The Global Tree Assessment...
- Type: Project
- Conservation Trees Extinction Global Threat Assessment
Many crop wild realtives (CWRs) are underrepresented in crop gene banks. With at least one-third of known plant species maintained in botanic garden living collections, the botanic garden community serves as an important...
- Type: Case studies/success stories
- Crops Genebanks Crop Wild Relatives Botanic garden Genetic research Ex situ Conservation
The Species Distribution maps depict distribution ranges of 45 European tree species. The dataset is composed of numerous species distribution maps available in geographical information system (GIS) format, created by...
In situ landraces: best practice evidence-based database. A tool for promoting landrace conservation
This tool is for landrace maintainers or those considering the cultivation of landraces to diversify their crop production system. It provides access to evidence-based information on the benefits, opportunities and...
- Type: Database
- Landrace Added values Best practice In situ Conservation
The RARe data portal allows a to search across the catalogs and associated data of the biological ressource centers partners of the french RARe research infrastructure. These data are held in distinct databases. The...
The FORGER project provided the European forest sector with integrated knowledge and information resources for enhanced conservation and use of forest genetic resources (FGR) as part of sustainable forest management.
What is forest genetic monitoring? How can it be applied throughout Europe? Bernd Degen, one of the partners in the FORGER project, responds to these questions and walks us through laboratories of Thünen Institute where...
- Type: Multimedia
- Genetic data Genotyping Sequencing Genetic monitoring
A Greek professor of forest genetics, Phil Aravanopoulos, travels back to his place of birth, the Lesvos island. Inspired by the father of botany, Theophrastus, who was born and lived on the island, he researches the...
- Type: Multimedia
- History Genetic research Cultural heritage Botany Climate change
Has Iceland always been a treeless land? Can any forests grow on this island of glaciers and volcanos? The film responds to these questions by telling a story of the forestry in Iceland. It explains why considering the...
- Type: Multimedia
- Afforestation Reproductive material Storytelling Resilience Seed Forestry Seedlings
