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Bioversity International is shaking up the food system says Food Tank
Bioversity International was mentioned by the Food Tank: The Food Think Tank as one of the 40 organizations that are shaking up the food system. "Our hope is that the more people know about the work that these groups are doing, the more people can be inspired to make their own change in the food system," said the co-founders of the blog.
Semantics for Biodiversity – International Workshop
The 1st international workshop on Web Semantics for Biodiversity, held on 27 May in Montpellier, France, will define key challenges identified by the bioinformatics community, discuss solutions and identify opportunities emerging from interactions across plant science and informatics disciplines.
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MAPFORGEN: An online atlas to support the conservation of forest genetic resources
MAPFORGEN (Mapping Forest Genetic Resources) is a project to evaluate the conservation status of 100 socio-economically important woody species (trees, palms, shrubs and bamboos) from different eco-regions of Latin America and the Caribbean and native to this region.
It also aims to raise awareness of the conservation status of forest genetic resources in these regions. The final product will be a publically available online atlas that contains all the gathered information about the species including GIS-based threat, distribution and in situ conservation analyses.
The 100 species were selected on the basis of FAO priority lists and prioritization exercises by LAFORGEN members. With the exception of some economically important species endemic to Mexico and Brazil, all other included species are present in two or more countries. Being a regional project, MAPFORGEN offers an opportunity for knowledge sharing between institutions from different countries about the selected species’ distribution, biology and conservation status.
 | Bioversity International is a member of the CGIAR consortium |
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This work by Bioversity International is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. |
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