ECPGR On-farm Conservation and Management Working Group

Chair: Valeria Negri email    Vice Chair: Pedro Manuel Reis Mendes Moreira email   

Recent events

Joint PGR Secure/ECPGR Workshop "Conservation strategies for European crop wild relative and landrace diversity", 7-9 September 2011, Palanga, Lithuania [more info]

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

Other events

2007
The On-farm Conservation and Management Task Force held its third meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 2-5 October 2007, together with a Home gardens workshop [more info]

2006
The On-farm Conservation and Management Task Force held its second meeting on 19-20 June 2006 in Stegelitz, Germany
- Report of the meeting
- Article in Newsletter for Europe Issue No. 33  [PDF] (111 KB) 

Background information

During the Eleventh Steering Committee meeting (Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2008) it was recognized that the existing On-farm Conservation and Management Task Force has long-term plans of action and therefore deserved the status of “Working Group". The Task Force was therefore converted into WG.

What is a landrace?
“A landrace is a dynamic population(s) of a cultivated plant that has historical origin, distinct identity and lacks formal crop improvement, as well as often being genetically diverse, locally adapted and associated with traditional farming systems.”
(From: Camacho Villa, T.C., N. Maxted, M.A. Scholten and B.V. Ford-Lloyd. 2005. Defining and identifying crop landraces. Plant genetic resources: characterization and utilization 3(3):373–384).

“A landrace of a seed-propagated crop can be defined as a variable population, which is identifiable and usually has a local name. It lacks “formal” crop improvement, is characterized by a specific adaptation to the environmental conditions of the area of cultivation (tolerant to the biotic and abiotic stresses of that area) and is closely associated with the traditional uses, knowledge, habits, dialects, and celebrations of the people who developed and continue to grow it”.
(Proposed by V. Negri, combining several other definitions).

Activities

Examples of successful national activities contributing to the in situ, on farm conservation

Methodologies for reintroduction and management of traditional varieties, involving farmers and local communities [under construction]

Directory of involved Institutions and NGOs

Bibliography

Listed by author's alphabetical order:

  • Maxted Nigel, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom  [PDF] (20 KB) 
  • Mendes Moreira Pedro Manuel Reis, Escola Superior Agrá de Coimbra, Portugal  [PDF] (12 KB) 
  • Negri Valeria, University of Perugia, Italy  [PDF] (16 KB) 
  • Ruiz Martines Juan José, University Miguel Hernandez, Spain  [PDF] (17 KB) 
  • Vögl Christina Reinhard, BOKU-University of natural Resources and Appliced Life Sciences, Austria  [PDF] (16 KB) 
  • Vögl-Lukasser Brigitte, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Appliced Life Sciences, Austria  [PDF] (9 KB) 

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