The European Farm Animal Biodiversity Information System (EFABIS) is the European information system for animal genetic resources. It is managed by the European Regional Focal Point for Animal Genetic Resources (ERFP)....
The European Information System on Forest Genetic Resources (EUFGIS) provides geo-referenced information on the conservation of forest genetic resources (FGR) in Europe and access to detailed data on genetic conservation...
The European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources (EURISCO) provides information about more than 2 million accessions of crop plants and their wild relatives, preserved ex situ by approximately 400 collections....
Recognition of the importance of plant genetic resources started in Germany at the end ofthe 19th century. Plant research and breeding began to develop in the 1920s. Formal structures of public institutions were founded,...
The video is a short documentary about the genetically-diverse Qadisha valley in Lebanon, one of the hotspots identified in the GenRes Bridge project.
Read the interview with Magda Bou Dagher, of Saint-Joseph...
Diversity to fields project (MoPe) is a three-year (2021-2023) development project seeking solutions to increase genetic diversity in fields in Finland by utilizing landraces and old commercial varieties. The project...
What is Arca Net?
The diversity of traditional and endangered livestock breeds and cultivated plants is cared for, bred and marketed in different places and in very different institutions in Europe. This diversity can...
The Brtiish Pig Association manages conservation breeding plans for 10 native pig breeds. Each year all breeders are surveyed to record an accruate pictuer of the live population. In situ and ex-situ conservation plans...
The Spanish CITA research center presents the citizen science project “Ambassadors of Biodiversity”. The project involves both growers and educational community, who are the protagonists of the research, growing...
In 2019 Norway published the first national strategy for conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources of animals, plants and forest trees. The overall goal is to secure the gene pool for future agriculture and...
The goal of GenTree was to provide the European forestry sector with better knowledge, methods and tools for optimising the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources (FGR) in Europe in the context of...
The ECPGR European Evaluation Network (EVA) for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) is an international project aimed at increasing the use of crop genetic diversity and the diversity of stakeholders...