Workshops

The 3 proposed workshops, approved at the eighth ECPGR Steering Committee meeting, October 2001, aim at facilitating the exchange of experience from different regions in the following areas identified as priority:

Documentation and information systems development
Policy issues
On-farm conservation and management

PGR information networking: towards regional approaches to PGR documentation of ex situ collections

Coordinators
Eva Thörn, Director, Nordic Gene Bank, Alnarp, Sweden
Brigitte Laliberté, Regional Office for Europe, IPGRI

Objectives of the workshop
Support the development/exploration of regional strategies and action plans for PGR information exchange mechanisms
Promotion of standards in information/data exchange
Exchange experiences and create links for future collaboration between Europe and Africa
Strengthen inter-regional collaboration and regional PGR networks

Regional networks involved
ECPGR and GRENEWECA (Genetic Resources Network for West and Central Africa)

Dates and location
18-20 March 2003, Cotonou, Benin

Reports
Workshop programme
Workshop report

Policy and legal issues workshop

Coordinators
Bert Visser (CGN, the Netherlands)
Marcello Broggio (IAO, Italy)

The workshop will be developed in close collaboration with the ECPGR Inter-regional Cooperation Task Force members.

Objective of the workshop
To host a workshop to facilitate an exchange of experiences and views on the implementation of new international agreements, as well as on national law and policy based on these agreements.

Regional networks involved
ECPGR, GRENEWECA, EAPGREN and SPGRC

Dates and location
December 2003, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

On-farm conservation workshop - plans for this workshop have been cancelled

Coordinators
Vladimir Meglič, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Additional coordinator to be confirmed

Objectives
In consultation with the ECPGR Inter-regional Cooperation Task Force and the ECPGR On-farm Conservation and Management Task Force, this project will develop the programme for a workshop (3-5 days) on on-farm conservation and management to be held in 2002.

Region involved
ECPGR and the countries of the REMERFI network (currently 7), the Red Mesoamericana de Recursos Fitogenéticos (Latin America PGR Network).

Contacts

Inter-regional Cooperation Task Force members