Located in Bioversity's Headquarters near Rome, as a member of a global research team, the incumbent will provide scientific leadership, coordination and facilitation of ongoing and new research and global partnerships towards the development of a global genetic resources information system, including scientific standards and the development and adoption of tools to support information management by genebanks around the world.
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The conservation of crops, crop wild relatives and trees ensures the resources needed to adapt and enhance agriculture remain available for future generations. Clonal crops such as banana, cassava and potato, which are vegetatively propagated require different approaches for conservation.
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The US Department of Agriculture, partnering with Bioversity International and the Global Crop Diversity Trust, launch an Internet-based information management system for the world's plant genebanks. Genebanks support global food production security goals by ensuring access to plant genetic resources (Photo: Keith Weller)
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The coconut palm is integral to the culture of many countries and supports more than 10 million sustainable livelihoods worldwide. Yet genetic erosion, climate-change and disease are placing bio-diverse coconut heritage under threat.
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Good management practices for the conservation and utilization of material in field and in vitro genebanks
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User feedback on the impact of Bioversity's International Transit Centre
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How well does Bioversity's International Transit Centre (ITC) serve its users? A recent impact assessment study aimed to find out.
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Bioversity's International Transit Centre (ITC), hosted at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, is home to the world’s largest collection of banana and plantain germplasm.
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Bioversity scientist Ehsan Dulloo presents the new Genebank Standards at the recent Eucarpia conference in Wageningen.
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The second of our impact assessment briefs describes the influence of 'In Trust Agreements' set up by Bioversity to protect CGIAR genebanks during a period of legislative uncertainty.
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The second in our series of impact assessment publications examines the influence of ‘In Trust’ agreements set up by Bioversity in 1994 in response to changes in the legislative environment.
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fellowships scholarships organized by Bioversity partners
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A new learning module for plant genetic resource practitioners who need to understand the legal and policy environment is launched today.
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The CGIAR’s System-wide Genetic Resources Programme today unveiled a massive and growing repository of information useful to anyone with an interest in genebanks.
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A rare collection of figs, sour cherries, pears and apples faces an uncertain future in southern Italy.
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Bioversity scientist, Jesús María Salcedo, reports on work to keep genebank accessions viable in the Americas.
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Bioversity International and UNEP have jointly appealed to both the Russian Minister of Agriculture and the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment urging them to help save the genebank at Pavlovsk Experimental Station.
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President Medvedev announces Pavlovsk Experiment Station land transfer "to be scrutinised".
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Listen to a radio interview with David Williams about the role of international genebanks
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On 16 October, 2006 - World Food Day - the eleven CGIAR Centres which hold ex situ collections of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) signed agreements
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Governments negotiating the Convention on Biological Diversity realized that the Convention was not appropriate, for example, for the existing ex situ collections of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture held around the world
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For thousands of years there were no international laws governing genetic resources. Farmers and plant breeders were free to exchange seeds and plant propagating material
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A training course for genebank curators and genetic resource professionals to study good practices for effective ex situ conservation and genetic diversity held in genebanks.
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A course for professionals who manage, conserve and use plant genetic resources (PGR) for food and agriculture in developing countries, and/or have policy-making responsibilities, to navigate through the policy environment.
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This interactive self-learning module on seed handling in genebanks is drawn from the Handbook for Genebanks No. 8: Manual of Seed Handling in Genebanks
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Bioversity partners with tertiary education institutions and networks to facilitate and lobby for the integration of agrobiodiversity into courses and degree programmes.
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It is predicted that by 2055 more than half of the 23 crops studied by Bioversity scientists will lose land suitable for their cultivation
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Genebanks provide safe storage to ensure that varieties and landraces of crops and their wild relatives are secure but also that they are made easily available for use by farmers, plant breeders and researchers.
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Global food security has become increasingly dependent on only a handful of crops which has resulted in thousands of species with local relevance becoming neglected and underutilized.
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Bioversity’s work in the European region is carried out through well-established regional programmes, ECPGR (European Cooperative Programme for Genetic Resources) and EUFORGEN (European Forest Genetic Resources Programme).
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One of Bioversity’s key research priorities is to use agricultural biodiversity to promote the conservation, exchange and sustainable use of plant resources
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