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Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization that delivers scientific evidence, management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural biodiversity to attain global food-and nutrition security, working with partners in low-income countries in different regions where agricultural biodiversity can contribute to improved nutrition, resilience ...
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (known as CIAT from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical) is an international research and development organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger while protecting natural resources in developing countries.
A key event in the conservation of plant genetic resources was the establishment of the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) (now Bioversity International) in 1974, whose mandate was to promote and assist in the worldwide effort to collect and conserve the plant germplasm needed for future research and production. IBPGR ...
MCPD was jointly developed by the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (now Bioversity International) and the FAO. The Multi-Crop Passport Descriptor is intended to provide a standardised method of describing and exchanging information about plant genetic resources .
Bioversity International - Scientific evidence, management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural and tree biodiversity; Crops for the Future (CFF) International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; European Crop Wild Relative Diversity Assessment and Conservation Forum
Coordinated by Bioversity International: Website: musanet.org: MusaNet is a global network of scientists and other stakeholders working on banana genetic resources.
The project started in 2008 by Bioversity International, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, "to create a single information portal to facilitate the access to, and use of, accessions in ex situ gene banks". [2]
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.