My interview this morning on RTS Premiere on ageobiodiversity and challenges to conserve Crop Wild Relatives in Switzerland www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

DSI at 10 An international conference critically analyzing the global governance of digital sequence information, at the intersection of law, biodiversity and multilateralism.

Here in english: www.droit.uliege.be/cms/c_128221...

« DSI@10: Charting a decade of Digital Sequence Information International Governance » Christine Frison, Amelie Lachapelle, Manon Lemaire, and I invite you to ´celebrate ´ 10 years DSI discussion in Liege, Belgium, on 16-17th April 2026. Program, subscription: www.droit.uliege.be/cms/c_128221...

🌱 #Biodiversité en Suisse : l'état reste insuffisant. Des progrès existent, mais beaucoup reste à faire. Notre nouveau #rapport, fondé sur des données scientifiques fait le point et montre les leviers d'action 👉 biodiversite2026.ch #Science #Recherche

Empowering farmers to conserve grassland's genetic diversity in situ The genetic diversity of grassland species is increasingly at risk due to agricultural intensification, habitat fragmentation, and climate change, whi…

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Happy to share our latest insight on whether and how get the farmers onboard to conserve agrobiodiversity with Morgane Lambert, Antoine Guisan, Christina Kaegi and Blaise Petitpierre

Such a nice 4-leaf fern (Marsilea quadrifolia)… almost gone in Switzerland, let’s protect our wetlands!! #nanocyperion

Negotiating Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS): Recommendations and Priority Issues, together with Stéphanie Stwitzer, Adam Strobeyko, Mark Eccleston-Turner and Michelle Rourke, as well as 29 co-signatories: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9r3g7_v1

Concilier #conservation et #production dans les #herbages? Notre contribution au débat avec Olivier Magnin et Morgane Lambert et Christina Kägi, dans Hotspot - Mention spéciale cousinproject.eu

One of my first Scientific love back in Nature: Genomic basis of Mendel’s peas 🫛

Very nice and fascinating initiatives presented today at a side-event of the #CGRFA FAO today on Neglected and underutilized corps

#cgrfa | Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft BLW 🧩 🐐 🌿 OFAG represents Switzerland at the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture FAO in Rome. These are essential to meet the challenges of…

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Launch of the 3rd report on the state of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for food and agriculture #PGRFA #CGRFA @Rome

Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article) Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

Musk's war on government capacity threatens "irreversible losses of crop genetic diversity. Such losses directly undermine the United States’ ability to ensure continued food security and dietary diversity amid challenges to our agricultural systems." 😬

Gift link:
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Elsevier journal, IF=6, sending paper for review with half the content in portuguese…better for pumping cash than for science?

Agri Le Coreper vient de se mettre d'accord sur un mandat du Conseil pour négocier avec le PE sur le règlement concernant les végétaux obtenus au moyen de certaines nouvelles techniques génomiques #NGT

20th Session of the UN FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture The only permanent intergovernmental body focused on conserving all types of biological diversity for food will meet to review guidance from experts on the CGRFA’s role in meeting global biodiversity ...

Upcoming 📣

The only permanent intergovernmental body focused on conserving all types of biological diversity for #food will meet to review guidance from experts on the CGRFA’s role in meeting global biodiversity commitments

#biodiversity #fornature #CGRFA

Swiss National Council validated 5 more years #moratorium on #GMO. Next step in the 2nd chamber, and a new law for #NBT in sight.

More on: cousinproject.eu

Presenting our very first results in the COUSIN Horizon project on Crop Wild Relatives in Europe at the annual meeting in Catania today! #agrobiodiversity #CWR collab:
#URJC #FOAG #Unil

🌍 Start der #SWIFCOB25! Heute begleiten wir die Tagung in diesem Thread 👇

🌍 Début de la #SWIFCOB25 — Suivez avec nous la conférence dans ce thread 👇

"Keep Talking while Everything Gets Sequenced" While the COP #CBD in Cali brought some light on the path to #DSI governance, a lot of work is still needed to ensure a coherent global governance of #DigitalSequenceInformation With Christine Frison and Paul Walckiers
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Fascinating workshop on Swiss ex situ conservation in BOGA Bern today. Nice to see a Community of practice coming to live! #biodiversity #CWR #agrobiodiversity #exsitu

Excellente étude sociologique qui cristallise beaucoup de nos préoccupations et observations…#agriculture #hedgerows #biodiversity #durabilité #agroécologie

Interesting discussions on crop wild relatives #CWR #insitu #conservation at the 11th session of the Intergovernmental working group on Plant Genetic Reources for Food and Agriculture #ITWG #PGRFA in Rome #agrobiodiversity

Annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Conservation of Cultivated Plants #CPC/SKEK in Lyss/BE yesterday. Nice discussions on #microfarming and genetic diversity #PGRFA #NAP-PGREL

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