Bringing the genebank back to the field: researcher argues for on-farm conservation

30 October 2012   |   Permalink   [1]

Field gene banks — monotonous orchards packed with tropical trees spanning as far as the eye can see — are being developed by researchers to prevent the loss of tree species as the world grapples with break-neck speed deforestation and loss of diversity on farms.

The seeds and saplings from these expensive, hard-to-maintain plantations are used, too, to select and breed superior fruit cultivars – but only a few of which have found their way back to farms.

Which has Hugo Lamers, a Bioversity International researcher, asking: how is this helping farmers?

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Filed under: Conservation  [8], Announcements  [9], Conferences & Events  [10]See also: Agricultural Biodiversity  [11], CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry  [12], CIFOR  [13], Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)  [14], CRP 6.0  [15], Forest Genetic Resources  [16], Genebanks  [17], ICRAF  [18], IITA  [19], Tree diversity  [20]

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