food and agriculture

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• - Facilitates management and operation of plant, animal, microbe and invertebrate genetic resources research programs for the Agricultural Research Service. Site provides access to data dictionaries for databases of plant germplasm and forage legumes collec
  
• - Sweden, 24-26 April 2003. Follow-up meeting to the 1998 Braunschweig Symposium that was concerned with the implementation of the Leipzig Global Plan of Action on PGRFA. Site provides full details.
  
• - PGR databases, monographs and other publications: crops, forestry and forages.
  
• - SINGER is the genetic resources information exchange network of the International Agricultural Research Centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. It provides access to information on the collections of genetic resources hel
  
• - Considers the impact of war, civil strife and low-intensity conflict on the management of plant genetic resources, in regions where crop plant genetic resources are still conserved in situ by small-scale agriculturalists. PDF format.
  
• - FAO portal for the Global System on PGRFA with links to the State of the World's PGRFA, the Global Plan of Action and its implementation and related conferences, agreements and treaties.