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  • New Policy Brief Alert: Crop Wild Relatives in the South African Development Community

    New Policy Brief Alert: Published under Darwin Initiative project: Crop Wild Relatives in the South African Development Community by Dulloo et al.,...

  • New Descriptors Alert: Descriptors for Crop Wild Relatives conserved in situ (CWRI v.1)

    New Descriptors Alert: Published under International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture by Alercia et al., on February 2021 ...

  • New Report Alert: Crop wild relative network showcases – analysis and best practices

    New Report Alert: Published under Farmers' Pride project by Álvarez-Muñiz et al., on 08 March 2021 Farmers’ Pride project has come up with a...

  • New Paper Alert: Review of congruence between global crop wild relative hotspots and centres of crop origin/diversity

    New Paper Alert: Published in Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution by Maxted and Vincent on 01 February 2021
    Crop wild relatives (CWR) are important...

  • New Paper Alert: Cabo Verde’s Poaceae Flora: A Reservoir of Crop Wild Relatives Diversity for Crop Improvement

    New Paper published in Frontiers in Plant Science - 1st Feb 2021 by Rocha et al.
    Africa is home to important centers of origin and diversity of crop...

  • Survey alert: Access and Benefit Sharing for in situ plant genetic materials and crop wild relatives in the SADC region

    The Darwin Initiative project “Bridging Agriculture and Environment: the Southern African Crop Wild Relatives Network” aims at establishing strategic...

  • Training workshop on crop wild relative conservation planning in the SADC region (May 2020 -March 2021)

    Under the Darwin SADC CWR network project, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, in collaboration with University of Birmingham and SADC...

  • Check out the new website of Wild Celery Network!

    The Wild Celery Network was established in 2019 as a result of a model and demonstration project and is coordinated by the Julius Kühn Institute. It...

  • Check whether your CWR is threatened in BGCI's ThreatSearch!

    BGCI has released the most comprehensive database of conservation assessments in plants, where you can search over 242,000 conservation assessments,...

  • A global database for the distribution of CWR

    CIAT has published a global database for the distributions of crop wild relatives on the GBIF web site. The geographic coverage of the dataset...