M@ngfold - Diversity - Kirjo

June 2008

Dr Udda Lundqvist received Livetime Achievement Award! Seed orchard conference Crop News Livestock News Forestry News READ THE COMPLETE DIVERSITY HERE, June 2008

April/May 2008

A nutty course! What does NordGen have to do with Svalbard Global Seedvault? Cutural landscape on Unesco's World Heritage List Crop News Livestock News Forestry News READ THE COMPLETE DIVERSITY HERE, April/May 2008

February 2008

Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in February, 2008 Welcome to NordGen, Nordic Genetic Resource Centre Highlighting access and rights to genetic resources of forest trees. Crop News Livestock News Forestry News READ THE COMPLETE DIVERSITY HERE, February 2008

December 2007

"House of Grains!" A new initiative on a center for cereals in Denmark! Leadership for the forests of Europe, will now be lead from Norway Crop News Livestock News   READ THE COMPLETE DIVERSITY HERE, December issue

October 2007

New Global Plan of Action for farm animals Cryo conservation for plants Seminar for legal aspects for trade with farm animal genetic resources New director of NordGen   New corrected version of short news from the crop sector   READ THE COMPLETE DIVERSITY HERE

July 2007

"Alnarps Day", with the theme "linné 300 years' anniversary" We lose one farm animal breed each month! Nordic Council of Ministry recommends establishing NordGen. Several seminars in september: workshop on Cryoconservation, September 26 - 27 wool seminar, September 27 - 28 DNA-based tools, forestry, September 23 -25 Coordinator of management and operations at the Global Seed Vault is hired.

 

February 2007

Plans for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault are completed Cultural Landscape Seminar 23-25 April 2007 - The Changing Cultural Landscape in the Nordic Countries Dr Bent Skovmand passed away New secretary of the forest genetics network

December 2006

Launching the programme ”New Nordic Food” 10 ambassadors for "New Nordic Food" Courses held at the Nordic Gene Bank in 2006 GMO-workshop As of 1 January 2007, Norway takes over the chairmanship of the NSFP secretariat

October 2006

Calendar 2007 A website for New Nordic Food Nordic Workshop on 28-29 November 2006 Collecting plants on Greenland 50th Anniversary for Finnish curly birch

August 2006

Global Seed Vault on Svalbard Decision on future Nordic cooperation in the field of genetic resources, approved by the 2006 summer conference of the Nordic Council of Ministers 3rd announcement; a conference about "Creative forest regeneration in the future" Don’t forget: our book on Sustainable Management of Farm Animal Genetic Resources

June 2006

Patented pig breeding – how is that possible? Nordiske GENressurser 2006 Seeds of the world to be conserved on Svalbard Documentation of Nordic genetic resources is now integrated within the GBIF data portal NSFP-Conference; Creative forest regeneration in the future

April 2006

CBD COP-8 in Curitiba, Brazil, 20-31 March 2006 Browsing prevents regeneration of English Yew (Taxus baccata) populations in Norway Assessment of Nordic cooperation in the field of genetic resources Diversity of Nordic and Baltic barley

February 2006

Use of improved regenerative material in Danish forest and landscape plantations New Nordic Food International project on farmers’ rights to plant genetic resources in agriculture A molecular study of the accessions at the Nordic Gene Bank International Conference on forest diversity and climate change

December 2005

The new Nordic region: Innovation and cooperation in northern Europe Norway's programme for the chairmanship of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2006 Access to genetic resources – securing fair sharing of benefits International prize awarded to Director Bent Skovmand International Service in Crop Science Award www.nordgen.net will become www.nordgen.org

October 2005

Biodiversity Conference 2005 Culture Night - New Nordic Cuisine NGH applied to become the secretariat for FAO´s European Focal Point for animal genetic resources (AnGR) Forest seed now stored on Svalbard

August 2005

Nordic Summer Conference 2005 in Århus New book – Sustainable Management of Livestock Genetic Resources New step for Gene Bank World Food Day 2005

June 2005

Nordic GENEresources 2005 Nordic Summer Meeting in Århus, Denmark Two workshops on cryoconservation will be held in autumn 2005 (in Leuven in Sept. and in Montpellier in Oct.). CBM's Diversity Conference "Cultivated Diversity – Conservation and Utilisation in a Changing Society"

April 2005

Danish landrace sheep Women started a ”gut rebellion” Livestock diversity important for sustainable development NSFP- Conference 2005 New staff members at the Nordic Gene Bank

February 2005

The Nordic Region in a New Era: knowledge, dynamism and cooperation Mila 2005 Seminar, Ullensvang (Norway), 21 & 22 April ngh-nytt – Special issue on poultry Swedish Forest Gene Bank

December 2004

Genetic resources on the agenda in Rome New Nordic Cuisine 25th Anniversary seminars in Denmark and Sweden New report on Nordic poultry breeds Fish as a genetic resource SNS- group meeting in Denmark

October 2004

World Food Day Nordic Council of Ministers’ summer meeting on Iceland NGB Seminars Regional report on farm animal genetic resources Oakflow project

August 2004

Broshure on Icelandic farm animal breeds The Åkerö apple Nordic Tree Nursery Conferance 2004 Finnish field trails were vandalised

June 2004

The following gift certificate was presented at the wedding of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik with Ms. Mary E. Donaldson NGB celebrates its 25th anniversary Genetic Resource Management in Finland New brochure about Nordic cooperation in the field of forest tree conservat www.nordgen.net, Our joint web-portal is now in operation. We hope you will use this portal extensively

April 2004

COP 7, 2004 Communication Strategy for Sustainable Management of Genetic Diversity in the Nordic Countries 2004-2009 New edition of NGH-genviten - Nordic Freerange Hen News from the forest: Conferences in the future

February 2004

"Nordic Resources" - Programme for Iceland’s chairmanship of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2004. Genetic resources of plants and animals An evaluation of the "Strategy for the conservation of genetic resources in the Nordic countries"

December 2003

Evaluation of the agricultural and forestry sectors’ action programme for 2000-2004 Bent Skovmand, Denmark, has been appointed as the new director of the Nordic Gene Bank. He will take up his duties on 1 January 2004.

October 2003

Cooperation with the Baltic countries Nordic Council of Ministers Nordic Gene Bank (NGB) Nordic Gene Bank Farm Animals (NGH) Identifying central European spruce populations

August 2003

NGB's storage facilities on Svalbard New Poster. Would you like us to send you a copy of this poster? We wish all of our readers lots of inspiration for their work this autumn. Feel free to contact us.

July 2003

Nordic Council of Ministers - Summer Seminar 2003, Kalmar, Sweden Ethics and Values in Food Production and Forestry Seminar 26-27 June 2003, Sweden Sustainable Management of Genetic Diversity - Possibilities and Values

April 2003

Seminar 26-27 June, Kalmar, Sweden Sustainable Management of Genetic Diversity - Possibilities and Values Nordic Genetic Resource Council Satisfactory disease resistance in several Norwegian, local apple varieties