Meet Bhutanese farmer Pema Pema is a smallholder farmer living with her parents, husband, and daughter in a traditional Bhutanese farmhouse in the village of Tsento, Shari in the Central Western part of Bhutan. There are about 50 households in the vill…
Jalonen R, van Zonneveld M, Thomas E, Gaisberger H, Vinceti B, Hong LT, Loo J. 2012. Identifying tree populations for conservation action through geospatial analyses. In: Multinational and Transboundary Conservation of Valuable and Endangered Forest Tr…
Every year students from many disciplines related to agricultural biodiversity come to Bioversity to carry out thesis research. Here is what Edgar, from Uganda, MSc student in Food Security and Human Development at Roma Tre University in Rome, has to s…
Originally published in 2001, the ‘Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors’ (MCPD) is widely used as the international standard to facilitate germplasm passport information exchange. Now expanded to include emerging documentation needs, this new version re…
How should you sample and preserve the wealth of genetic resources, not only of crops and wild species, but also of symbiotic bacteria, pollen, trees and even DNA? A new online resource gives practical guidance on collecting and related topics, such as…
