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International Seed Treaty - http://www.planttreaty.org
Web portal of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (IT PGRFA), the global agreement that aims to conserve and further develop, on their farms, the (rapidly eroding) range of farmers' seed varieties that is basis of the world's food supply. |
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Germplasm documentation - http://www.bioversityinternational.org/Themes/Germplasm_Documentation/index.asp
Provides information about types of documentation required to properly conserve, manage and use biodiversity, including: Standards, Protocols and Descriptors Lists; Passport data; Characterization; Evaluation; Monitoring gene flow; Genebank management software; and Information systems. |
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Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) - http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/aboutgrin.html
Facilitates management and operation of plant, animal, microbe and invertebrate genetic resources research programs for the Agricultural Research Service. Site provides access to data dictionaries for databases of plant germplasm and forage legumes collections. |
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Third Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - http://www.planttreaty.org/meetings/gb3_en.htm
The meeting was held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 1 to 5 June 2009. It considered, inter alia, its procedures and funding and also the relationships between the Governing Body and the Global Crop Diversity Trust and with the CGRFA; Implementation of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing; Implementation of Article 6, Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources; Implementation of Article 9, Farmers’ Rights. |
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System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources - http://singer.cgiar.org/
SINGER is the genetic resources information exchange network of the International Agricultural Research Centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. It provides access to information on the collections of genetic resources held by the CGIAR Centres. Together, these collections comprise over half a million samples of crop, forage and tree germplasm of major importance for food and agriculture. |