Strategy

The European Genetic Resources Strategy will be a policy framework for securing genetic resources for food, agriculture and forestry in the region. It will present a vision for improved genetic resources management in Europe and will include an action plan to pave the way towards its implementation. Crucially, the strategy will increase awareness of the importance of genetic resources for sustainable and resilient agriculture and forestry in the region and the imperative for adequate and long-term financing for their management.

With its specificities unique to each domain, the plant, forest and animal genetic resources networks are also developing the domain-specific strategies.

Coming up in 2021

Five locations have been studied in detail to help formulate a rationale for the joint conservation of genetic resources in the plant, livestock and forest domains. If genetic resources in all three domains can be conserved in a landscape under a single management plan, costs are likely to be lower and benefits higher than if each were conserved alone.

Coming up in 2021