News
The 2010 edition of Vedere la Scienza Festival, International Film, Video and Documentary Festival, in Milan from 22-28 of March, presented the DIVERSEEDS documentary film.
This documentary film - made by IDC - shows the importance of agricultural biodiversity for food and agriculture, with astonishing pictures from Europe and Asia.
The 2nd International DIVERSEEDS Meeting, that took place in Kunming, Yunnan, China is now available for download.
The first cut of the DIVERSEEDS film on use and conservation of plant genetic resources in Europe and Asia will be shown at the BOKU on Thursday 28, 2008 in Vienna.
The EU and China are looking to strengthen their links in the area of agricultural research, according to representatives from the 'Biotechnologies, agriculture and food' Directorate of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research (DG Research) and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).
The second international DIVERSEEDS meeting was held in in Kunming, Yunnan, PR China, from September 2-5, 2008.
The World Soybean Research Conference VIII (WSRC VIII) will be held in Beijing, China on August 10-15, 2009.
The summary of the DIVERSEEDS e-conference (March 3 to April 4, 2008) is now available for download.
"Ambiguity in a trans-disciplinary stakeholder assessment of neglected and underutilized species in China, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam" has been published in Biodiversity and Conservation.
The DIVERSEEDS video on the opening of the Svalvard Global Seeds Vault is now online.
On Monday 3 March 2008 the international electronic conference on plant genetic resources, hosted by DIVERSEEDS has started. In the first week more than 110 international experts have registered and the discussion had a head start.
The CWRSG is a new Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union (SSC/IUCN).
The International Symposium "Underutilized plants for food, nutrition, income and sustainable development" takes place in Arusha, Tanzania, from 3-7 March 2008.
The executive summary of the Inter-regional Workshop on Crop Genetic Resources Networks, Maccarese, Italy, 3 - 5 December 2007, is now available.
An Article on DIVERSEEDS was published in the Chinese newspaper "Science times" on 24 January 2008.
With the collaboration of INBAR (International Network for Bamboo and Rattan) and WWF (World Wildlife Fund), DIVERSEEDS hosted a public information event on the value of plant genetic resources, that took place in the Botanic Garden of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) on 20th January 2008.
The 10th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms (ISBGMO) will be held in New Zealand from 16-21th Nov 2008.
The first large international meeting of our project was held from Tuesday 04 – Friday 07 December 2007 at Bioversity International, Rome, Italy.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGS) is taking shape. Construction work started in April 2007 and should be finished in February 2008.
Almost at the same time at the end of September/beginning of October, three DIVERSEEDS workshops were carried out in Ljubljana, Slovenia by our European team; in Beijing by our Chinese team; and in Hanoi, Vietnam by our Southeast Asian team).
Our project partners from University of Kassel, Dr. Khoshbakht and Prof. Hammer recently published an interesting article on Threatend and Rare Ornamental Plants