Using local agricultural biodiversity - A Kenyan farmer's story
Peninah Mwangangi has a smallholder farm in the arid region of Kitui, in eastern Kenya. She explains how using local traditional food crops have helped mitigate against harvest loss when the rains don't come. This is the third story in our 'Fork in the Road' series as part of our Rio+20 campaign.
Why understanding forest genetic resources is vital for future options
Laura Snook Programme Leader, Forest Genetic Resources Conservation and Use, talks about the need to harness the huge genetic diversity of different tree species to face challenges such as climate change and find sustainable ways to use and conserve it for our future. This video is the latest from our Rio+20 campaign blog.
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A common language for plant resources
A new impact assessment study looks at the effectiveness of Bioversity's Descriptor lists, a series of publications that aim to standardise the way plant resources are documented.
Capturing and sharing information on genetic resources
A look at the usefulness of Bioversity's Descriptor Lists to a range of users and their value in promoting collaboration and plant genetic resources information exchange.
Descriptor lists and derived standards
Descriptors are the basis of major information platforms such as GENESYS and EURISCO, and also the FAO World Information and Early Warning System.
Sharing information
Gathering and sharing information about our agricultural biodiversity is vital to its conservation and use, for farmers, scientists, conservationists and breeders.
Brazil holds successful genetic resources meeting
The First Brazilian Congress on Genetic Resources provided an opportunity for genebank curators and plant breeders to share the latest developments in descriptors and informatics with Bioversity staff.
Finger Millet descriptor list
New descriptor list for finger millet (Eleusine coracana). This minimum list consists of an initial set of characterization and evaluation descriptors.
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