The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) funded a three-year Project entitled Strengthening National Capacity and Regional Collaboration for Sustainable Use of Forest Genetic Resources in Tropical Asia (ITTO PD 199/03Rev. 3(F)) in years 2006-2009.
(Added 14 January 2011)

A survey was conducted in Feb 2010 with the national coordinators of the 14 APFORGEN countries – 9 countries including Secretariat of The Pacific Community (SPC) responded. The purpose of the survey was to identify the strengthens and weaknesses of past activities and ideas for improvement.
(Added 14 January 2011)

The symposium which was organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5-8 October 2009 brought together 63 participants from 19 countries. The symposium focused on tropical Asia, but participants came from all across the region, including China, Japan, Pacific Islands and Australia.
(Added 20 January 2010)

Reiner Finkeldey and Hans Heinrich Hattemer have written an excellent textbook on tropical forest genetics. The 315 pages covers a wide range of topics from general population genetics and reproduction of trees to domestication and conservation of forest genetic resources. Most examples are from tropical Asia. Unfortunately the book is expensive.
(Added 17 April 07)

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international consortium enables developing countries to gain free or low cost access to one of the world’s largest collections of proprietary environmental science literature. Free access in institutions based in six APFORGEN countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos.
(Added 15 March 07)

The online CPF Sourcebook on Funding for Sustainable Forest Management has been developed to help users efficiently locate global funding sources for sustainable forest management projects.
(Added 1 March 07)

Research Fellow Partnership Programme for Agriculture, Forestry and Environment (RFPP) supports PhD or Post-Doc projects for young scientists from developing countries up to the age of 40. The projects must be implemented in collaboration with Swiss research institutions and Bioversity International or another institute supported by CGIAR.
(Added 1 March 07)

A textbook entitled “An introduction to forest genetics” written by Swedish forest geneticists has been published in the internet. The book is targeted for undergraduate students. Most information presented in the textbook can be applied in tropical Asia despite of the main focus on conifers.
(Added 11 January 07)

Since 1 December 2006, IPGRI has operated under the name ”Bioversity International”, Bioversity for short. This new name echoes their new strategy, which focuses on improving people’s lives through biodiversity research, but does not change Bioversity’s role in APFORGEN secretariat. (Added 06 December 06)

Diverse Forest

Diverse Life

APFORGEN is a programme to increase conservation and sustainable use of tropical forest genetic resources (FGR) in the Asia Pacific region.

Regional Training Workshop to Support the Preparation of the State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources in Asia

IUFRO World Congress technical sessions (SP3 & B10) on Forest Genetic Resources

IUFRO World Congress side-event on Forest Genetic Resources

Training Workshop on Conservation and Management of Forest Genetic Resources

International Symposium on Forest Genetic Resources

Second Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on the Preparation of a Report on the State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources (SOW-FGR)

APFORGEN Activities and Achievement

Training Workshop on Forest Biodiversity

Expert consultation meeting on forest restoration

Training Workshop on Forest Biodiversity

April 2006
Dehradun, India