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New article about SGSV (Monday May 13 2013)
Global Ex-Situ Crop Diversity Conservation and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Assessing the Current Status has been published in PLOS ONE
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NordGen FIVE YEAR JUBILEE! (Tuesday April 16 2013)
This will be celebrated with a serie of lectures the 10 of June!
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First deposition to SGSV from Thailand (Monday March 18 2013)
On March the Svalbard Global Seed Vault recieved the first seed box from Thailand.
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EUCARPIA Genetic Resources meeting. (Tuesday December 04 2012)
A meeting in June 2013 with scientists, breeders and people from all around the world. Theme of the meeting is "Pre-Breeding - fishing in the gene pool"
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Gene Bank excursion to London (Thursday November 15 2012)
NordGen visited Linnean Society, Kew Gardens in London and Millenium Seed Bank
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Project for supporting Nordic Apples (Wednesday November 14 2012)
The project is centered around two serious problems in Nordic apple production, fruit tree canker and storage diseases.
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Genetic resources - Open seminar (Tuesday October 02 2012)
A lunch-to-lunch open seminar about the value of genetic resources 22-23 November in Norway.
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The Nordic Way at Rio+20 (Monday June 04 2012)
Activities and events - Events organized by the Nordic Council of Ministers' at Rio+20
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Innovations Protecting the Environment! (Thursday April 26 2012)
The Worldwatch Institute is listing 15 agricultural innovations around the world where Svalbard Global Seed Vault is one amongst them!
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NordGen is looking for a Senior Advisor (Wednesday April 11 2012)
NordGen offers an interesting position with variable and challenging work in conservation and sustainable management of farm animal genetic resources in the Nordic and international arena
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Bruksgenbanken i Norge (Thursday March 15 2012)
Bruksgenbanken i Norge leverer såkorn til 25 gamle kornsorter.
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Temporary position 2012 (Friday March 02 2012)
Do you want to work with Plant Genetic Resources in a Nordic context?
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New staff to NordGen (Thursday January 12 2012)
New experts to NordGen and staff changes
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NordGen is looking for two technicians (Wednesday December 21 2011)
We are looking for a seed and lab technician and a cultivation technician for field and greenhouse.
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SLU seminar (Monday November 21 2011)
Seminar: 'Genetic Resources and Plant Breeding', SLU, Alnarp, 17th of November 2011
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Nordic Council Enviroment Prize (Thursday November 10 2011)
Nominate a candidate for the Nordic Council Environment Prize. Theme 2012: Biological diversity.
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Seminar: Values of Genetic Resources (Monday November 07 2011)
Event under Finnish chairmanship of Nordic Council of Ministers in Helsinki 17 Nov 2011
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NordGen is seeking a section leader (Thursday November 03 2011)
NordGen is seeking a leader of NordGen-Farm Animals
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AnGR-NordicNET Workshop (Thursday October 13 2011)
Workshop in Nov about effects of climate change in the Nordic countries
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NordGen is looking for a plant expert (Thursday October 06 2011)
Do you want to work with Plant Genetic Resources in a challenging and stimulating Nordic context?
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Sustainable biomass production (Tuesday July 26 2011)
Current topic attracted many participants to the NordGen Forest conference in Odense 13-14 September.
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NordGen's Annual Review to be downloaded (Friday July 01 2011)
Our annual publication with articles from our field and the result from 2010 is now ready.
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Director for NordGen appointed (Wednesday June 15 2011)
Arni Bragason has been appointed as Director for NordGen.
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Workshop in Iceland (Wednesday June 08 2011)
NordGen Farm Animals arranges in September a workshop on the Socio-economic and Cultural Values of Farm Animal Breeds.
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From genebank to dinner table (Thursday May 26 2011)
A new Danish action plan for PGR 2011-2013.
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Avtal undertecknat av Norge (Friday May 13 2011)
Norge har undertecknat konventionen om biologisk mångfald.
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Svalbard frövalv i SVT (Monday May 02 2011)
Nära 650 000 fröprover finns nu i frövalvet på Svalbard. Se inslag från Rapport.
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Hanna Biljer - potatisens väktare (Thursday April 28 2011)
Se reportaget från svenska TV4 om damen som ägnat sitt liv att rädda lokala potatissorter.
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SGSV får eget frimärke (Thursday April 14 2011)
Posten Norge presenterade i dag ett frimärke med motiv från Svalbards Globala Frövalv.
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Global rapport om skogtrærnes GR på vei (Tuesday April 12 2011)
FAOs kommisjon for genetiske ressurser er på god vei mot å kunne legge fram en statusrapport for verdens skogtregenetiske ressurser.
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PhD thesis helps plant breeders (Monday April 11 2011)
Dag Terje Endresen, former IT manager at NordGen, has gained his PhD degree with a thesis about a method to help identify valuable traits in genebank material.
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Spring time in the greenhouse (Friday March 18 2011)
NordGen has begun the regeneration work in the new greenhouse.
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Read about the SGSV (Monday March 07 2011)
Read the fact article on The Encyclopedia of Earth about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
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First Australian deposit at Svalbard (Wednesday February 09 2011)
The first-ever Australian deposit of seeds into the bank will include 301 samples of field peas and 42 rare chickpeas
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Food production and forestry (Monday February 07 2011)
At the opening of "Forests for People" the Norwegian minister spoke about relationship and interdependecy between sustainable food production and conservation of our forests.
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Förälskad i potatis (Tuesday December 21 2010)
En ny kokbok om potatis är på väg. Kocken har odlat 33 av NordGens potatissorter och smaken varierar mycket.
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Master essay on Roseroot (Tuesday December 21 2010)
Madeleine Kylin presented in the end of November her Master essay on Roseroot.
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New interim Director appointed (Thursday December 09 2010)
Arni Bragason has been appointed as interim director of NordGen until May 31, 2011
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NordGen's Director leaves NordGen (Tuesday December 07 2010)
The 8th of December, Jessica Kathle leaves her position as Director of NordGen.
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Our daily bread (Monday November 29 2010)
A book on Cereals in a Nordic and global perspective has been published in Norwegian. An English version is soon to come.
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Jakthunder skal reddes (kun på norsk) (Tuesday November 16 2010)
Ved å øke status og interesse for jakt på hare håper en å redde de tre jakthundrasene hygenhund, haldenstøver og dunker.
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Direktiv om bevarandesorter (Wednesday November 10 2010)
Statens jordbruksverk har skickat ut ett förslag till föreskrifter om bevarandesorter och amatörsorter av köksväxter på remiss. Läs NordGens yttrande
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GRIPA conference,16-17 of November (Wednesday November 03 2010)
This year's conference "Genetic Resources in protected Areas - From Words to Action" aims to be even more action oriented than last year.
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NordGen survives? (Tuesday November 02 2010)
After somewhat turbulent weeks, the process to save our gene bank seems to be going in the right direction.
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Inslag på SVT:s Sydnytt om NordGen (Wednesday October 27 2010)
Den 27/10 sände Sydnytt ett inslag om NordGen. Hälften av personalen kan få gå om inte den ekonomiska situationen kan lösas.
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Nordisk aftryk på EUs Østersøstrategi (Friday September 24 2010)
Norden skal gå forrest og vise vejen for grøn vækst i Østersøregionen, sagde Halldór Asgrímsson, generalsekretær for Nordisk Ministerråd.
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Professor Arnulf Merker har gått bort (Monday September 20 2010)
Det är med stor sorg vi har mottagit meddelandet om att Arnulf Merker, professor i växtförädling med placering vid SLU, har gått bort.
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Frusna fröer (Wednesday September 15 2010)
En dokumentär om frövalvet och om livsmedelsförsörjningen i framtiden kan just nu ses på nät-TV i Sverige.
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Frozen seeds (Thursday June 03 2010)
Swedish Television send a documentary about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and about the food supply in the future.
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Welcome to our new website (Thursday May 27 2010)
We have changed the design of our website. But if you use the website you will notise that it is build in the same way and you can therefore easily find what you are looking for.
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Technical improvements at SGSV (Wednesday May 19 2010)
Technical improvements will be done at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this summer.
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Order our Annual Review 2009! (Tuesday April 06 2010)
Now you can order or download NordGen's Annual Review 2009. It also contains some interesting articles.
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Workshop for breeding experts (Thursday March 25 2010)
NordGen Farm Animals is hosting in close cooperation with Estonian University for Life Sciences a workshop in Risk Management in animal breeding programs June14.-18 2010.
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Svensk pomologis nestor har gått bort (Tuesday February 02 2010)
Professor em. i frukt- och bärproduktion vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU), Alnarp Ingevald Fernqvist, Malmö har avlidit i en ålder av 84 år.
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Kystgeita, KUN PÅ NORSK (Monday February 01 2010)
Kystgeita er en sterkt truet husdyrrase. Den går ute hele året, og holdes for kjøttproduksjon på noen få øyer på norsk vestkyst. Nå har den fått egen utstilling.
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Plants: New book on European landraces (Monday January 11 2010)
The book gives a broad picture of the actual conservation work of European landraces.
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New book about Cattle of the Yakuts (Tuesday December 22 2009)
The book Sakha Ynaga - Cattle of the Yakuts, tells the story of the survival of the Yakutian cattle in the land of permafrost.
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Biodiversity and climate change (Monday December 21 2009)
Nordgen has made a new folder about the effects of climate change on agriculture and food security. It is called "Biodiversity - a key factor in a changing climate.
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Global matsäkerhet hotas (Monday December 21 2009)
Klimatförändring är det största hotet mot världens matproduktion, menar nordens jordbruksministrar.
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50 000 seed samples are sent to Svalbard (Friday December 11 2009)
Svalbard Global Seed Vault receives major seed shipment as world leaders meet to tackle climate change in Copenhagen.
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COP 15 Climate summit 7-18/12 (Thursday November 26 2009)
NordGen participates in Nordic activies in Bella Center to bring forward the importance of biodiversity.
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Warning from the world's food experts! (Thursday November 19 2009)
Failure to focus on agriculture will undermine success of next global climate agreement.
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Side-event in Rome,18th of November (Thursday November 12 2009)
The title is "Genetic Diversity and Fodd Security in a Time of Climate Change".
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Genetic Resources in protected areas (Wednesday October 21 2009)
Welcome to our conference "Genetic Resources in protected areas", December 1-2, 2009
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Workshop in pre-breeding in cereals (Wednesday October 14 2009)
We are pleased to invite to the workshop "Joined SLU-ECPGR Pre-breeding in Cereals" in November, 24-25 2009
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Vacancies (Wednesday September 30 2009)
We are looking for a specialist in plant genetics.
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Träffa oss i Stockamölla (Thursday September 17 2009)
NordGen deltar i International Garden Society i Stockamölla 18-19 september.
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Ban Ki-Moon on Svalbard (Friday September 04 2009)
UN General sekretary sees the Seed Vault as a symbol of peace and a gift to humanity.
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Biodiversity and the Svalbard Seed vault (Wednesday September 02 2009)
See Cary Fowler från Global Crop Diversity Trust speak.
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Guided tours at the garden laboratory (Tuesday August 18 2009)
Guided tours at the garden laboratory
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Etterlyser gamle fåreraser (Tuesday August 04 2009)
Norsk Genressurssenter arbeider for kartlegging av gamle husdyrraser, og etterlyser informasjon om dyr av de to gamle sauerasene rygja og steigar.
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Professor Stig Blixt deceased (Friday July 03 2009)
Stig Blixt, former Director at the Nordic Gene Bank, has passed away, 79 years old.
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NordGen Annual Review 2008 (Thursday July 02 2009)
Our annual review for 2008 is now available.
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Distinguished Award to Erling Fimland (Thursday June 18 2009)
Erling Fimland, former leader of NordGen Farm Animals, has been granted the Distinguished Service Award of EAAP.
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Access and Acquisition Guidelines (Monday June 01 2009)
During spring 2009 a report on Access and Acquisition Guidelines on Plant Material at NordGen was finalized.
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Genetic diversity in Angelica (Monday May 25 2009)
A project investigating relationships between Nordic populations of Angelica has started.
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Luncheon event at CSD17 in New York (Thursday May 07 2009)
Succes for the luncheon event on genetic resources hosted by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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About the Seed Vault in EUObserver (Wednesday April 22 2009)
Frozen seeds – safeguarding global food supplies is the title of an article signed Halldór Ásgrímsson, Nordic Council of Ministers
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Status for danske genetiske ressourcer (Monday April 20 2009)
Plantedirektoratet i Danmark har fremsendt en landerapport til FAO
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PhD student wanted by KU-Life (Thursday April 09 2009)
Fruit quality evaluation for selectiv harvest using 'imaging'
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Project Ydun is launched (Thursday April 09 2009)
The Ydun project evaluates the potential of local Danish apple varieties for special juice production.
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Baltic-Russian cooperation on GR (Monday April 06 2009)
A memorandom of understanding has been signed to strengthen collaboration between the Nordic and Baltic countries and Northwest Russia.
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NordGen application supported (Thursday March 12 2009)
The Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) has now decided to support a NordGen application on access and rights to genetic resources of forest trees.
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Plants that tell stories (Wednesday March 04 2009)
We have gathering all information concerning the seminar i Hillerød, Denmark, in November 2008 called "Plants that tell stories - the cultural heritage of plant genetic resources"
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Seed Vault at Svalbard - 1st Anniversary (Friday February 20 2009)
The 1st Anniversary of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was celebrated the 26th of February. The first year has been a success.
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Dansk satsning på gamla sorter och raser (Monday February 09 2009)
Danska fødevareministeriet ger extra medel för att bevara gamla danska växt- och husdjursgenetiska resurser.
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Per Harald Grue avgår från LMD (Thursday February 05 2009)
Per Harld Grue blev ordentligt avfirad när han pensionerades från norska Lantbruks- og matdepartementet. Han kommer dock att fortsätta som styrelseledamot för NordGen.
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Gamla fröer får nytt liv (Tuesday February 03 2009)
Allt fler vill odla sina egna grönsaker. Dels för att veta vad det är vi äter. Dels för att rädda gamla fina svenska sorter som riskerar att dö ut. Läs mer i SvD:s artikel
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Udda Lundqvist får Nilsson-Ehle medalj (Tuesday January 27 2009)
Dr. Udda Lundqvist får Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademiens medalj för sin långa gärning inom kornområdet
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Internationellt naturfiberår 2009 (Wednesday January 07 2009)
Siden, ylle, sisal, bomull - alla är naturfibrer som kommer att uppmärksammas på olika sätt under året.
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Nordgens nya webbplats är klar! (Monday January 12 2009)
Vi är stolta att presentera Nordgens nya webbplats med ny design och aktuellt innehåll
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NordGen Plants
New EU proposal released (Wednesday May 08 2013)
by the EU Comission concerning the whole agri-food chain.
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Bachelor project (Monday April 29 2013)
Jonatan Leo, a Horticulture student at SLU has published a bachelor project carried out at the seed laboratory at NordGen.
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From Farm to Fork (Thursday February 07 2013)
A seminar 21st March 2013 that highlights the possibilities with novel techniques in plant breeding and post-harvest research.
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New position as Seed Technician (Friday February 01 2013)
NordGen is looking for a seed technician for NordGen plants in Alnarp
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Preserved plants in clonal archives (Friday January 25 2013)
Cultivated varieties, land races and other genotypes of vegetatively propagated plants are preserved as living plants in several clonal archives in Norway.
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Database for plant names running again (Wednesday October 03 2012)
The Swedish database for names of cultivated plants SKUD is available again. The database has potential for becoming a Nordic nomenclature database.
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NBMP in Latvia (Friday September 28 2012)
Nordic Baltic Mobility Programme, Workshop in Riga, Latvia Sep 17-20 2012
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Beloved utility plants (Wednesday August 29 2012)
A wide range of potato and tomato varieties were on display in Gothenburg Botanical Garden in thelast weekend of August.
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Nordic Relict Plant Meeting, Iceland (Thursday May 03 2012)
This meeting in Egilsstaðir, Iceland in July 2012 is for everyone with an interest in relict plants particularly in Nordic and Arctic areas.
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Workshop in Latvia (Monday June 04 2012)
Diversity in Plant Breeding and Agriculture Strategies for Healthy Lifestyle
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Open air museum rescues apples varieties (Monday March 12 2012)
The Danish Open Air Museum takes over a unique collection of old Danish apple varieites from the AgriFish Agency, a part of the Ministries of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.
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Report from FNI by Regine Andersen (Thursday December 01 2011)
Plant Genetic Diversity and Farmers’ Rights in Norway
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New Nordic Food in TV news (Tuesday November 08 2011)
The Swedish local TV news Sydnytt (svt) tells about the manifesto for the new Nordic cuisine and NordGen contributing with material.
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Seminar: Values of Genetic Resources (Monday November 07 2011)
Event under Finnish chairmanship of Nordic Council of Ministers in Helsinki 17 Nov 2011
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European rye workshop, 13-14 Oct, 2011 (Wednesday October 26 2011)
European rye workshop, 13-14 Oct, 2011
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Workshop “Improving the prerequisites for a European rye collection”, October 13-14, Radzików, Poland ()
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NordGen is looking for a plant expert (Thursday October 06 2011)
Do you want to work with Plant Genetic Resources in a challenging and stimulating Nordic context?
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Old veggies against diabetes? (Thursday September 29 2011)
Old varieties of vegetables cultivated from NordGen seeds are used in a Danish research project.
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Farmer not allowed to sell seeds (Tuesday August 23 2011)
'Chefs, allergists and health experts praise old landraces of cereals. But farmers have to practise civil obedience to keep the landraces alive.'
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Old cereal landraces in organic farming (Tuesday July 12 2011)
A seminar was held in Norway the past weekend with taste samples and science about traits of old cereal varieties. These old landraces are well suited for organic farming.
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From genebank to dinner table (Thursday May 26 2011)
A new Danish action plan for PGR 2011-2013.
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Workshop, PPP on Pre-breeding (Monday March 14 2011)
Workshop on Nordic PPP on Pre-breeding February 2011, Finland
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Ny norsk genbank for gamle potetsorter (Monday March 07 2011)
For å tilby dyrkere i Norge friske settepoteter av gamle sorter er det opprettet en norsk potetgenbank.
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SKUD re-opens (Monday February 21 2011)
The on-line database for nomeclature and Swedish name standards for cultivated crops was forced to close in the beginning of this year, but will re-open before the end of February.
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Workshop on pre-breeding (Thursday February 03 2011)
Workshop on Nordic Public-Private-Partnership on Pre-breeding, February 17-18, 2011.
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No potato deliveries during 2011 (Monday January 03 2011)
NordGen can not deliver any potato germplasm during 2011.
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Film om äpplen och genetiska resurser (Tuesday December 21 2010)
Norsk Genresurssenter har gjort en film om äpplet som försvann - om förlorandet av genetiska resurser
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Invitation to a workshop (Wednesday November 10 2010)
Baltic Sea Network for Management and Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources
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Dansk PGR-konference i Randers Regnskov (Tuesday October 12 2010)
Randers Kommune, Fødevareministeriet og Randers Regnskov holder sammen en konference med fokus på bevaring og bæredygtig udnyttelse af vores fælles levende kulturarv.
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Nordic project with the Baltic countries (Thursday August 26 2010)
NordGen participated in a collaboration project with the Baltic countries with a programme on how vegetatively propagated plants can be documented and made accessible for users.
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Pre-breeding for small grain cereals (Thursday May 27 2010)
- How to meet future challenges of food supply under a changing climate
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Wanted: old varieties of ornamentals (Monday May 10 2010)
We search for old varieties of seed-propagated annual and biennial ornamental plants.
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Nordic Bilberry Project (Friday February 26 2010)
During 2006-2009 NordGen has been partner in a project led by the University of Oulu in Finland, working to characterize and evaluate Nordic Bilberry accessions.
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Cereal Pre-Breeding Workshop (Tuesday December 22 2009)
Now you can download the presentations from the workshop in Alnarp 24-25th of November 2009.
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Field trial and collections in Iceland (Thursday November 19 2009)
NordGen is working on collecting and characterizing Icelandic species of medicinal and aromatic plants.
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Genetic Resources in protected areas (Wednesday October 21 2009)
Welcome to our conference "Genetic Resources in protected areas", December 1-2, 2009
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Äldre växtsorter kan bli bevarandesorter (Friday October 16 2009)
Jordbruksverket håller seminarium i Nässjö den 11 november.
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Rye from Gotland (Thursday September 10 2009)
Traditional cultivation of rye on Gotland has maintained local biodiversity. Not only of rye landraces, but also of red listed weeds as rye brome and corncockle.
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Open garden at NordGen (Monday August 31 2009)
A lot of people has visited NordGens regeneration and demonstration plots this autumn
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The first seed harvested (Friday July 03 2009)
The last weeks heat has initiated the harvesting of the first seeds from field and greenhouses this year.
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Genetic diversity in Angelica (Monday May 25 2009)
A project investigating relationships between Nordic populations of Angelica has started.
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NordGen på potetdag på Österlen (Wednesday April 15 2009)
Mandelmanns trädgårdar på Österlen hade åpen hage langfredag. Potet var tema – og NordGen deltok med 30 Nordiske sorter.
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Project Ydun is launched (Thursday April 09 2009)
The Ydun project evaluates the potential of local Danish apple varieties for special juice production.
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Potato for distribution 2009 (Wednesday April 08 2009)
The ordered potatoes are packed and ready for distribution
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Möte om nordiska fältgenbanker (Monday April 06 2009)
Under ett nordiskt möte i Norge i mars dryftades bevarande och bruk av vegetativt förökat växtmaterial i våra fältgenbanker och klonarkiv.
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En nyckelart med problem - Sälgen (Tuesday March 10 2009)
Världsnaturfonden (WWF) vill uppmärksamma betydelsen av sälg som nyckelart i naturen och har utlyst 2009 som sälgens år.
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Plants that tell stories (Wednesday March 04 2009)
We have gathering all information concerning the seminar i Hillerød, Denmark, in November 2008 called "Plants that tell stories - the cultural heritage of plant genetic resources"
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Workshop in Chile (Friday February 06 2009)
In the period January 12 - 16, NordGen staff and other Nordic scientists participated in the 1st International Workshop, arranged by Fitogen at the University de Los Lagos.
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Samarbeid NordGen og Frøsamlerne (Thursday January 22 2009)
NorGen samarbeider med Frøsamlerne om sikkerhetslagring av materiale, oppformering og dokumentasjon
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Besök från centralasien (Tuesday January 20 2009)
Studenter fördjupar sig inom genbankers arbetsuppgifter
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Potet tema på Vitenskasakademien (Monday January 05 2009)
Kerstin Olsson fra SLU and Svein Solberg fra Nordgen deltok med innlegg på konferanse i anleding potetens internasjonale år
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Kål & rovor odlas i sommar. (Monday January 05 2009)
Ett mindre antal rovor och kålsorter kommer att utvärderas av Restaurang Noma & Malmö Operagrill.
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Gísli Magnússon (1621-1696) och kummin (Friday January 02 2009)
NordGen har samlet vekster på Island. Blant annet fant vi karve på plassen til Gisli den Vise.
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NordGen Farm Animals
Genetic characterization of dogs (Thursday May 16 2013)
A joint Nordic project initiated by NordGen will contribute to sustainable breeding of Nordic dog breeds.
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Management of heathlands (Wednesday January 09 2013)
Old management technique which combines grazing and burning helps to stop coastal heathlands from vanishing.
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Successful GxE workshop held in Finland (Friday November 30 2012)
AnGR-NordicNET mid-term conference organized by NordGen in collaboration with the University of Helsinki gathered 72 participants from 16 countries
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Two-day workshop in Finland in November (Friday July 06 2012)
NordGen arranges a two-day workshop "Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Adaptation of Farm Animals on Phenotypic and Molecular Level" in Tuusula, Finland on the 7th-8th of November, 2012.
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EVA workshop in Riga in June 2012 (Sunday April 01 2012)
NordGen Farm Animal is arranging a workshop "Managing small populations with pedigree and/or genomic information" in Riga, Latvia 13th-15th of June 2012.
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NordGen promotes values of farm AnGR (Friday January 13 2012)
NordGen Farm Animals will promote this year knowledge of distinct values exhibited by farm animal breed diversity.
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New staff to NordGen (Thursday January 12 2012)
New experts to NordGen and staff changes
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NordGen is seeking a section leader (Thursday November 03 2011)
NordGen is seeking a leader of NordGen-Farm Animals
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danske husdyrraser (only in Danish) (Wednesday June 29 2011)
Udvalget til Bevarelse af Husdyrgenetiske Ressourcer har bevilget 1,1 mio kr til bevaringsarbejdet hos avlere, avlsforeninger og dyrskuer.
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Nisjeslakteri (Monday April 18 2011)
"Villsau" slaktes på eget slakteri, med kapasitet på ca 200 sau i uka
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Norwegian version only (Wednesday March 23 2011)
Skinn, pels og horn av historiske husdyrraser blir vakre klær i hendene på Bine Melby.
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Bee-symposium in Estonia (Wednesday February 02 2011)
NordGen is invited to speak at a Nordic-Baltic Apicultural Research Symposium in Tartu 4.-6. February 2011
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Geno and Viking Genetics collaborate (Monday January 31 2011)
The two Scandinavian breeding organizations are working together on further improving the breeding work on the Nordic brown dairy breeds, through genomic selection.
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Villsau (Wednesday November 24 2010)
(kun på norsk)
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Jakthunder skal reddes (kun på norsk) (Tuesday November 16 2010)
Ved å øke status og interesse for jakt på hare håper en å redde de tre jakthundrasene hygenhund, haldenstøver og dunker.
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Nordic Poultry Conference 2010 (Monday November 15 2010)
NordGen was invited to the conference in Tromsø, Norway, to give a presentation on "Diverse poultry genes, a condition for the adjustment to future markets and production systems"
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Bacongris (kun skandinavisk versjon) (Tuesday July 13 2010)
(kun skandinavisk versjon)
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NordGen Forest
NordGen application supported (Thursday March 12 2009)
The Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) has now decided to support a NordGen application on access and rights to genetic resources of forest trees.
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Conference in Bergen September 2009 (Friday June 05 2009)
Climate, tree breeding, pine weevils and environmental values! NordGen invites you to the Nordic conference "Regeneration in afforestation landscapes" in Bergen 28-30 September.
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Climate change and plantations (Monday August 24 2009)
Practical angle at thematic day in Denmark in October
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Regeneration in afforestation landscapes (Wednesday October 07 2009)
Participants from the five Nordic countries heard, saw, and discussed topics related to afforestation and regeneration during NordGen’s conference in Bergen.
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Third "olympic gold" to Sweden! (Thursday January 07 2010)
At the next World Congress, IUFRO will give the ”Outstanding Doctoral Research Award” to Finnvid Prescher, SLU, for his PhD thesis on seed orchards.
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Apply for a NordGen Forest scholarship (Friday January 08 2010)
Do you want to gain experience from colleagues in the Nordic countries, or perhaps write a master thesis on tree breeding? NordGen's scholarship may be something for you.
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Vacant post - genetic resources (Thursday January 14 2010)
Position as director of the Norwegian Genetic Resource Centre is advertised, with application deadline 31. 01. 2010.
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Thematic day on damages (Friday February 12 2010)
Damages on seeds and seedlings were discussed in Finland 18 March.
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Four scholarships in 2010 (Thursday March 25 2010)
NordGen Forest scholarships are given to applicants from Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Norway this year. The projects span from pine weevils to nutrient analyses.
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Alien tree species (Friday June 11 2010)
NordGen's conference in Uppsala 6-7 October gathered more than 60 participants. See presentations here!
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Thematic day on Iceland (Thursday October 14 2010)
Plant quality is the topic 9-10 November in Akureyri
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Regeneration challenges (Friday January 21 2011)
Thematic day in Norway 22 March addressed the use of new seed lots, pine regeneration, lammas shoots and pests.
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Thematic day in Iceland (Friday February 04 2011)
Seedling quality and methods for quality assessment was discussed at the thematic day in November.
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Global rapport om skogtrærnes GR på vei (Tuesday April 12 2011)
FAOs kommisjon for genetiske ressurser er på god vei mot å kunne legge fram en statusrapport for verdens skogtregenetiske ressurser.
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Sorbus - a genus with large variation (Wednesday June 01 2011)
The genus Sorbus contains everything from beautiful ornamental trees to endangered species. Several endemic species are found in Norway.
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Regeneration quality (Tuesday June 28 2011)
How to secure early and abundant regeneration was discussed at a thematic day in Lahti in October.
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Sustainable biomass production (Tuesday July 26 2011)
Current topic attracted many participants to the NordGen Forest conference in Odense 13-14 September.
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Who owns the genes of forest trees? (Monday October 03 2011)
New report on access and rights to forest genetic resources in the Nordic region.
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"The world's green gold" in Reykjavík (Monday October 10 2011)
2011 is the UN International Year of Forests. Forests will be in the centre of attention in Iceland 22 Oct, through the conference "Heimsins græna gull-The state and prospects of the world's forests".
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New posters about trees (Friday October 21 2011)
The Norwegian Genetic Resources Centre has made a beautiful set of posters with different tree species, for use in schools or otherwise.
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Red-listed species in the Swedish forest (Monday January 02 2012)
A new report from the Swedish Species Information Centre shows that intensified forestry is at the expense of the forest species.
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The 'Dream seedling' of the future (Monday February 06 2012)
The presentations from the thematic day in Stockholm 28 March are now available.
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Larix 2012 (Friday March 02 2012)
Iceland is hosting a symposium on larch breeding and genetic resources in September 2012.
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Options for forest regeneration (Sunday June 24 2012)
NordGen Forest's conference in Finland 5-6 September focussed on alternatives to spruce planting.
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Wood quality after ash dieback (Friday August 10 2012)
The recent years ash has been heavily affected by a fungal disease. Read about Danish experiences with wood quality in trees attacked by the ash decline.
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Thematic day in Iceland (Thursday October 25 2012)
NordGen's next thematic day will take place in Iceland 6th of November 2012.
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Plantdagarna 2012 (Monday January 14 2013)
Seminar in Sweden, November 2012
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Conservation of genetic variation (Tuesday January 22 2013)
This is how Sweden will conserve genetic variation in native forest trees
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Genetic resources on the agenda in Rome (Tuesday April 23 2013)
Forest trees in FAOs Commission on Genetic Resources
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First Global Plan of Action for FGR (Friday April 26 2013)
A major step forward for forest genetic resources
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Scholarships 2013 (Friday April 26 2013)
Travel grants awarded to Nordic projects
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Successful thematic day (Thursday January 08 2009)
"Increased forest production - new customer requirements, new seedlings, new techniques?" was the topic in Stockholm 12 March.
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Who owns the genes of forest trees? (Thursday January 08 2009)
NordGen's project on access and rights to genetic resources of forest trees is presented in Vienna September 13.
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Worldwide report on genetic resources (Saturday January 10 2009)
The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture i FAO has decided to prepare a report on "The State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources".
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