Third global assessment of PGRFA sees the light of day at last I spent all last week at the 20th Session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources in Rome: "[t]he Commission is the only permanent intergovernmental body that specifically addresses all components ...

Third global assessment of PGRFA sees the light of day at last – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/03/thir... #genebanks #PGRFA #agrobiodiversity

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

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

Running a genebank for rice . . . In March this year, I posted a story about the International Rice Genebank (IRG) at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, the Philippines. Now, I thought it would be intere…

#PGRFA #PlantScience After posting a story from 'The Guardian' about the Vavilov genebank in St Petersburg during WW2, here's my take on what's involved in running the world's largest genebanks - for rice at IRRI in the Philippines.
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