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Announcement: 9-10.11.2010
Agrobiodiversity Symposium 2010
The 2010 symposium will discuss new pathways for the mainenance and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity
and efficiency of supporting measures. It is organized by
Informations- und Koordinationszentrum für Biologische Vielfalt (IBV), DIVERSITAS Deutschland e.V. and the
Network Forum Biodiversitätsforschung Deutschland (NeFo)
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Info: June 2010
Arca Net Info
The SAVE foundation has updated the information about ARCA NET. Originally, Arca-Net was only a virtual travel
guide for the German speaking countries. Now, Arca-Net is available in four languages (English, French, German and Italian)
and contains over 500 publicly accessible places in 43 European countries - from Iceland to Malta, North-South and from
the Azores to the Ukraine, West-East. A map with all the locations and categories of the centres makes searching in
specific regions or countries in Europe easy.
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Announcement: 8-10.09.2009
2nd World Seed Conference 2009
A changing world carries many challenges for agriculture. At the global level, increasing population, climate change, parallel demands for food and energy production and evolving human needs require a response in agricultural production, often at the same time as land and inputs become increasingly scarce and expensive. Agriculture needs to provide food security and economic development in the context of these global challenges by responding at the local, national and regional level. Success in responding to these challenges relies on dynamic and sustainable agriculture. This conference is intended to raise awareness of the importance of new plant varieties and high quality seed in this context and considers how governments can develop an enabling environment to encourage plant breeding and the production and distribution of high quality seed.
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Announcement: 24-25.04.2009
5th Conference of GMO Free Regions:'Food and Democracy'
More than 230 regions, over 4200 municipalities and other local entities and tens of thousands of farmers and food producers in Europe have declared themselves "GMO-free" expressing their commitment not to allow the use of genetically modified organisms in the agriculture and food in their territories. Since 2005, the movement of GMO Free Regions in Europe holds an annual meeting.
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Announcement: 11-13.03.2009
World Biodiversity Congress
The First World Congress on Biodiversity will provide a forum for reorienting policies and programmes for any country for more productive and sustainable biodiversity utilization and conservation.
The three day congress organized by Century Foundation, Bangalore, India will help to develop an agenda to ensure conservation of bioresources and ecosystem protection for sustainable development. It will bring together the international scientific community involved in the study of biological diversity and an unique opportunity to deepen our understanding of nature and natural resources.
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Announcement: 4-7.02.2009
4th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture
The deliberations during the Congress will develop a road map and evolve strategies to promote conservation agriculture. The expected outcomes of the Congress will be: (i) to document global R&D efforts in conservation agriculture; (ii) to measure the benefits of conservation agriculture; and (iii) to identify region specific up-scaling issues.
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6-7.11.2008
Biodiversity: fostering research on crop improvement in sub-Saharan Africa
The event fitted in with the dynamic triggered two years ago following the organization of a workshop on plant and animal biotechnologies in June 2007, on the initiative of WECARD, Agropolis International, CIRAD and IRD. It was intended to foster collaboration in terms of scientific research and training between French researchers and their counterparts in sub-Saharan Africa, in the strategic field of biodiversity and crop improvement. It also served to inform decision-makers of the requirements in terms of funding for such research and training operations.
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4-5.11.2008
Conference: Biodiversity and Agricultures; Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Research for More Sustainable Farming
The Conference on "Biodiversity and Agricultures: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Research for More Sustainable Farming" was held in 2008, in Montpellier (France). The event targeted European and International decision-makers and stakeholders. Its programme thus focused on an area of research that is currently seeing considerable growth, exploring the enhancement of biodiversity through agriculture as well as the impact of agriculture on biodiversity.
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5. - 14.10.2008
World Conservation Congress
The IUCN World Conservation Congress is the world’s largest and most important conservation event. Held every four years, the
Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development.
The Congress starts with the four-day Forum run by IUCN members and partners discussing cutting edge ideas, thinking and practice.
The Forum leads into the four-day IUCN Members’ Assembly, a unique global environmental parliament of governments and NGOs.
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24. - 27.08.2008
World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT
The Conference will provide an effective forum for agriculture related researchers and information specialists to share and discuss
latest development on applications and developments in the use of Information Technologies.
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03. - 05.06.2008
High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
The conference will address food security and poverty reduction in the face of climate change and energy security. The conference
will seek to contribute to the UN system efforts in the field of climate change. A series of expert meetings and stakeholder
consultations will take place during the January-April 2008 period as part of the preparatory process.
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22.05.2008
International Day for Biological Diversity
Celebration of the IBD in 2008 seeks to highlight the importance of sustainable agriculture not only to preserve biodiversity, but
also to ensure that we will be able to feed the world, maintain agricultural livelihoods, and enhance human well being into the 21st
century and beyond. At the same time it seeks to highlight the importance of maintaining the world's biological diversity, upon which
agriculture and future production is so dependant.
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19. - 30.05.2008
Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
The Conference of the Parties is the governing body of the Convention, and advances implementation of the Convention through the decisions it takes at its periodic meetings.
To date the Conference of the Parties has held 8 ordinary meetings, and one extraordinary meeting (the latter, to adopt the
Biosafety Protocol, was held in two parts). From 1994 to 1996, the Conference of the Parties held its ordinary meetings annually.
Since then these meetings have been held somewhat less frequently and, following a change in the rules of procedure in 2000, will now
be held every two years. To date the Conference of the Parties has taken a total of 216 procedural and substantive decisions.
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12. - 16.05.2008
Planet diversity : World Congress on the Future of Food and Agriculture
Germany"Planet Diversity" will be a global congress and festival on the future of food and agriculture, organised by NGOs,
GMO-Free Regions, farmers and social movements around the world. From May 12th to 16th 2008 this event will involve about 500
participants on location and thousands of people, who will participate through the internet and by spreading the word before and
after this first "Planet Diversity" congress.
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06.05.2008
Bioversity International awards two research fellowships
Bioversity International’s Board of Trustees recently approved two Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships for research into agricultural
biodiversity. Enoch G. Achigan-Dako, of Benin, will study watermelon and its wild relatives with a view to improving conservation
and use of genetic diversity. Dorin Gupta, from India, plans to mine the genome of Medicago truncatula (barrel medic) in search of
markers that can be used in lentil breeding. The Fellowships are intended to advance the careers of younger scientists from developing
countries by enabling them to carry out relevant, innovative research outside their own countries.
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26. - 30.11.2007
2nd International Vavilov Conference
"Crop Genetic resources in the 21st Century: Current Status, Problems and Prospect"
St.Petersburg, Russian Federation
The Conference will concentrate on the following topics:
- Significance of Vavilov’s theoretical heritage for modern science
- Plant genetic diversity as a basis for food, bioresource and environmental security
- Vital aspects of in situ and ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources
- Modern technologies in researching and broadening plant genetic diversity
- The role of plant genetic resources in the world’s breeding achievements
- Information technologies in plant genetic resources management and evaluation
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15. - 17.11.2007
First Balkan Symposium on Fruit Growing
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
"This symposium will renew the opportunity for informal gathering and exchange of ideas on trends in fruit growing science." (A.ZHIVONDOV,
Convener)
The main topics are: Genetic resources, breeding and biotechnology, sustainable and environmental friendly fruit production,
post-harvest physiology and processing.
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13. – 16.11.2007
Conference on Native Breeds and Varieties as part of natural and cultural heritage
Šibenik, Croatia
The basic purpose of the Conference is to analyse the current state of native breeds of domestic animals and plant varieties, as well as the state of habitats they used to inhabit and in which they used to grow. The Conference also aims to analyse the role of native breeds and varieties in protection of biodiversity, with a view to preserve biological diversity of Croatia in accordance with the National Programme for EU accession and NATURA 2000 programme.
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29.09.2007
European Agro-Biodiversity Day
The last Saturday in September has been proposed as "European Agrobiodiversity Day" by SAVE, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Konstanz, Germany.
The aim of the event is to inform consumers about rare breeds and varieties in each country, raise public awareness on the need for conservation and launch positive messages to governments.
Contact: info@monitoring.eu.com
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3.-4.09.2007
5th International Symposium on New Crops and Uses: their role in a rapidly changing world
One day workshop articulated in 5 sessions:
1. The context, justification and application of underutilized crops in a
rapidly changing world
2. The need for underutilized crops in a changing world
3. Success, failures and lessons learned- food & nutritional crops: Case
studies
4. Success, failures and lessons learned- non-food crops: Case studies
5. Discussion for a) regulatory and b) technical papers
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28.-29.06.2007
Seminar "Biodiversity in Austria. Contributions from agriculture and forestry."
The seminar constists of many lectures and an excursion.
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4.-22.06.2007
Seed Potato Technology certification and supply systems
The overall objective of this course is to improve the participants' knowledge of the technical, organisational, institutional and socio-economic aspects of seed potato supply systems. After completing the course, participants will have increased their expertise concerning all major aspects of seed potato production. (Fee: 3750 Euro)
in Wageningen, The Netherlands
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23.-26.05.2007
18th EUCARPIA Genetic Resources Section Meeting
The meeting is about "Plant Genetic Resources and their Exploitation in the Plant Breeding for Food and Agriculture".
Important deadlines
15 January 2007 - Final Registration
15 January 2007 - Submission of abstracts
15 January 2007 - Payment of registration fees and accommodation and transportation
23 May 2007 - Submission of manuscripts for proceedings
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3.-5.05.2007
International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security - Rome
The overall objective of the Conference is to shed light on the contribution of organic
agriculture to food security, through the analysis of existing information in different agroecological
areas of the world. The Conference will identify organic agriculture's potential and
limits in addressing the food security challenge, including conditions required for its success.
The outcome of the Conference will be a thorough assessment of the state of knowledge on
organic agriculture and food security, including recommendations on areas for further
research and policy development. The Report of the Conference will be submitted to the 33rd
Session of the Committee on Food Security, for information and further action.
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4.-11.03.2007
Second International Agarwood Conference
The Second International Agarwood Conference will be conducted in Thailand, from March 4 until March 11, 2007. This conference will follow up on the experience and the feedback of the hugely successful First International Agarwood Conference, held in Vietnam in November 2003.
The entire event will be organized along similar lines with two days of presentations in Bangkok, an optional excursion to agarwood shops in Bangkok and travel to the countryside, and conduct field trips to agarwood plantations and an agarwood oil processing unit. We will then travel to Koh Chang, a tropical island and home of natural (extremely endangered) Aquilaria.
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January 2007
Equator Prize 2006
The Equator Prize is awarded to recognize and celebrate outstanding community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation of biodiversity. As sustainable community initiatives take root throughout the tropics, they are laying the foundation for a global movement of local successes that are collectively making a significant contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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14.12.2006
Regional debate on agricultural biodiversity
Regional experts gathered recently to discuss the "Importance of Conservation and Use of Agro-Biodiversity to Face Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean," according to a press release from the Inter American Institute For Cooperation on Agriculture. The release, picked up by The Bahama Journal, says that presentations covered food security, climate change, energy generation and institutional action. "However, the central theme was the improvement of livelihoods for people through agro-biodiversity." Experts from CATIE, FAO and the World Bank all stressed the positive contribution that investment in agricultural research makes to general development.
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12.12.2006
International Conference on Indigenous Vegetables and Legumes : Prospects for Fighting Poverty, Hunger and Malnutrition
The World Vegetable Center, the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) have jointly organized this first international conference on indigenous vegetables and legumes in Hyderabad, India.
MISSION:
Create awareness on the importance of indigenous vegetables including legumes to food security, food diversification, and improvement of nutrition and health
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08.11.2006
GFAR 2006 conference in Delhi
This year, GFAR held its Third Triennial Conference from 8 to 11 November 2006 in New Delhi (India) with the theme "Reorienting Agricultural Research to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)"
GFAR 2006 Conference focused on the contributions of ARD to the MDGs. The MDGs constitute an integral part of the Millennium Declaration adopted by the United Nations in September 2000 and commit the international community to an expanded vision of development; one that vigorously promotes human development as the key to sustain social and economic progress in all countries, and recognizes the importance of creating a global partnership for development. The goals, all eight of them, have been commonly accepted as a framework for measuring development progress, and currently constitute the focus of development efforts.
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30.09.2006
Information on the European Day of Agrobiodiversity (EAD)
On the 30th of September, the European Day of Agro-Biodiverity (EAD) is going to take place. The topic for this year is "Traditional Agro-Ecosystems". The topic is particularly mediasuited to raise awareness for the very special value of traditional agricultural systems. SAVE has compiled a dossier that country organisations can translate into their language and complement with information on local projects, problems and activities.
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22.09.2006
Green revolution idea for Africa resurrected
Two leading US private charitable foundations - Rockefeller and Gates - have proclaimed a "new" Green Revolution for Africa. $150 million are to be poured into the continent in the form of new seeds, and in efforts to get small farmers to grow them.
Yet none of this is new. It is the same recipe, using the same ingredients, and pushed by the same agency that perpetrated the original Green Revolution starting in the 1950s. It failed in Africa then because it failed to listen to - failed even to ask - the indigenous farmers, who had worked their land for generations.
There is no reason to suppose that the same technological "fix", reapplied this time by private charities rather than governmental agencies, will work any better now. But there is reason to worry that these and other similar initiatives will further push the privatization of agricultural research and plant breeding in Africa into the hands of a few big corporations.
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21.09.2006
Conference in Paris
The conference "Biodiversity in European Development Cooperation" took place from 19 to 21 September 2006 in Paris and offered cutting-edge debate on the dual challenge of poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation. High-level speakers and participants from European and partner countries, civil society and multilateral organisations charted ways to make development aid contribute more effectively to the Millennium Development Goals, especially Goal 7 to ensure environmental sustainability. The results of the conference contribute to European and international efforts to achieve the 2010 Biodiversity Target and the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.
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17.06.2006
First Session of Treaty Governing Body agrees Standard MTA and urgent need to implement Farmers Rights
The first session of the Governing Body of the Treaty ended at 2:20am on 17 June. It decided on a legally-binding standard material transfer agreement and to prioritise discussions on Farmers Rights, as recommended by CSOs in their 14 June statement.
The specific and important decisions in the SMTA included provisions on: FAO as the third party beneficiary; a percentage of 1.1% as the fixed percentage a recipient shall pay when a product is commercialized yet not available without restriction to others for further research and breeding; and 0.5% for the alternative payments scheme.
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17.05.2006
Action, action, action to save biodiversity in the Caucasus
A stark call for the protection of the natural wealth of the Caucasus emerged from
the Countdown 2010 Caucasus Conference, held in Gudauri, Georgia from May 15-
17. Nature conservation organisations launched a countdown to reach the 2010
biodiversity target. In this particularly biodiverse European region, at least 700
species are threatened with extinction.
Gudauri, Georgia, 17 May 2006. More than sixty experts from four Caucasian countries and international
NGOs and other organisations adopted the "Message from Gudauri", an appeal for immediate action to
manage natural resource use, improve the region's network of protected areas and monitor biodiversity.
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