In situ and On-farm Conservation Network

Coordinator: Nigel Maxted email   

Recent events

Botanical garden (Madeira) (Photo: © L.Maggioni)

2011

Joint PGR Secure/ECPGR Workshop "Conservation strategies for European crop wild relative and landrace diversity", 7-9 September 2011, Palanga, Lithuania [click here for more info]
- Article in Newsletter for Europe No. 44, April 2012  [PDF] (86 KB)

2010

Symposium for the establishment of European genetic reserves for CWR and landraces (Funchal, Portugal, 13-16 September 2010).

The ECPGR In situ and On-farm Conservation Network Coordinating Group, the Centre for Macaronesian Studies of the University of Madeira (CEM-UMa) and the Institute for Breeding Research on Agricultural Crops of the Julius-Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), have jointly organized organized the symposium “Towards the establishment of genetic reserves for crop wild relatives and landraces in Europe”. The symposium held at the University of Madeira, Funchal (Portugal), on 13-16 September, 2010 was open to conservation biologists, protected area managers and experts from the agrobiodiversity sector engaged in the management and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA). The symposium provided the opportunity to meet with European experts working in the field of in situ and on-farm management of PGRFA, discuss and share the results of the EU project "An Integrated European In Situ Management Work Plan: Implementing Genetic Reserves and On Farm Concepts (AEGRO)”. For the full programme and additional information please visit the symposium website. 

Full proceedings of the Symposium (plus additional contributions) are to be published in 2011.

Other Network-related events:

  • Third meeting of the On-farm Conservation and Management Task Force, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2-5 October 2007, together with the Home Gardens Workshop [more info]
  • Second meeting of the On-farm Conservation and Management Task Force, 19-20 June 2006, Stegelitz, Germany [meeting report]
  • ECPGR Network Coordinating Groups meeting, 29-31 March 2006, Bonn, Germany [more info]
  • Final dissemination conference for PGR Forum - Crop Wild Relative Conference, 14-17 September 2005, Agrigento, Italy [more info]

Background information

Vegetable field (Istria, Croatia) (Photo: © Z.Matotan)

During the Eleventh Steering Committee meeting (Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2008) it was recognized that the existing Task Forces of the In situ Conservation Network have long-term plans of action and therefore deserve the status of "Working Groups".

The two Task Forces were therefore converted into WGs:

The In situ and On-farm Conservation Network was established during Phase V of ECPGR, but became operational in May 2000 with a joint meeting, held in Isola Polvese, Italy, of two Task Forces for "Wild Species Conservation in Genetic Reserves" and for "On-farm Conservation and Management".

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