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Voluntary guidelines on national-level conservation of CWR and wild food plants endorsed
The sixteenth session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA 16) was...
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Updated quinoa descriptor list extended to crop wild relatives
It is the year of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) and the old descriptor list from 1981 has not only been updated but also extended to include...
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Core descriptors for in situ conservation of crop wild relatives' is the new addition to the Bioversity International Descriptor series
The natural populations of many species of crop wild relatives are increasingly at risk. They are threatened primarily by the loss, degradation and...
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Four decades of collecting mission data online
Bioversity International has released the new version of it’s collecting mission database. Read more about Four decades of collecting mission data...
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Descriptors for tree tomato and wild relatives published
Descriptors for tree tomato (Solanum betaceum Cav.) and wild relatives have recently been published by Bioversity International.
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Opportunities for CWR conservation in Central Asia
Crop Wild Relatives get a big mention in the brief World Bank press release, which announces a US$ 3.35 million Global Environment Facility Grant to...
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Revamped ‘PARKS: The International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation’ launched
A revamped ‘PARKS: The International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation’ was officially launched at the World Conservation Congress. PARKS...
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CWR and protected areas in new issue of PARKS
Why conserving CWR in protected areas is not an easy task