Annual Report
- 2001
Annual Report 2001
From here you can explore the various stories contained in IPGRI's Annual Report for 2001. The supplementary information -- for example Financial Information, Staff and details of IPGRI's project set -- are not published on the Web. However, they can be found in a printable PDF of the Annual Report, which can be downloaded here. The file is about 2Mb.
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Foreword
It has been a year of momentous change for the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute. After what seems like years of waiting, planning and worrying, we finally moved into our splendid new headquarters building in ...
The International Treaty: A New Beginning
Bringing seven years of negotiation to a close, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture puts the conservation and use of crop diversity on a sound international legal footing The...
Assessing impact on policy
IPGRI's role in the Treaty Negotiations Raphal Sauv, an IPGRI intern supported by the Qubec Ministry of International Relations, investigated IPGRIs role in the negotiation of the new International Treaty on Plant Genetic...
The Global Conservation Trust
IPGRI is leading a campaign to provide perpetual funding for vital collections of crop diversity around the world The Global Conservation Trust is a mechanism for implementing important goals of the Global Plan of Action and...
Diversity added to the resource management equation
The CGIAR Inter-Centre Task Force on Integrated Natural Resource Management continues to develop a holistic understanding of agro-ecological systems Integrated Natural Resource Management is about the need to balance the...
Crop diversity helps farmers in desert-prone areas
Desert margins are among the most fragile and threatened environments on Earth. Better use of biodiversity can help the people who live there to survive Drought is a fact of life in the arid and semi-arid areas of Sub-Saharan...
Casting a plant genetic resources network across the Pacific
An ambitious new project to unite the plant genetic resources activities of the disparate and scattered nations of the Pacific has made great strides Consider an area that extends across 30 million km2 bigger than Canada, ...
Geographical information systems and plant genetic resources
Two stories show how geographical information systems are helping to protect plant genetic diversity It is a truism that plants grow best where conditions suit them. So it should be easier to find a particular species if you...
Computers speed the search for wild rice
Trudging through faraway fields remains the best way to locate plant diversity, but high technology is showing scientists the best places to start the search Dionysious Kiambi, a researcher at IPGRIs Sub Saharan Africa office...
Peanut conservation moves into the 21st century
IPGRIs Innovation Fund supported a ground-breaking study that brought together old records and modern techniques to peer into the future Peanuts have a problem; they cant move far or fast. The 69 species of the genus Arachis...
Keeping the cradle of agriculture secure for the future
Four countries are working together to add value to diversity and thereby strengthen the virtuous circle that unites conservation and use The Near East ProjectConservation and Sustainable Use of Dryland Agrobiodiversity in ...
Plantain production transferred to a higher plane
Farmers from Central and West Africa visited Latin America to learn first-hand about simple technologies that can double their harvest of cooking bananas Plantains are an important staple food and cash crop in the wet lowlands...
A window on Europes ex-situ plant genetic resources
Knowledge is power, and the European Commission is helping to empower all those with an interest in Europes crop diversity Making information available to genetic resources workers is the first step to developing appropriate ...
Geneflow Junior targets youth for a better tomorrow
A new magazine takes the message of Diversity for Development to the next generation of decision makers. One of IPGRIs strategic choices is to increase public awareness about crop diversity and the important role it can play...
Sweet Partnership Helps Safeguard Worlds Cocoa Supply
The global Cocoa project, managed by IPGRI, is a model of international co-operation and private-public partnership. More than halfway complete, it is time to take stock. Theres a lot of loose talk by people who think they are...
People, forests and trees in South America
IPGRI has been working with stakeholders from all strata of society to ensure that forests can continue to provide what local people need They call themselves Pehuenche, the people of the tree. The tree in question is Pehuen,...
Making the most of the Musa sequence
The Global Musa Genomics Consortium was launched in July 2001 to immediate scientific and popular acclaim. One of the delights of bananas and plantains is that they don't contain any seeds. But while that makes them easy to...
