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A
short training workshop for Forest Managers
and Forest Field Officers on forest
biodiversity with focus on forest genetic
resources conservation and management
will be held on 7-11 July 2008 in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
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The
SEARCA Seed Fund for Research and Training
(SFRT)
is
envisaged to provide chosen research
and training project proposals with
limited start-up funds intended to enhance
chances of securing long-term support
from donor agencies.
(Added 12 March
08) |
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Eighteen
young scientists from twelve countries
participated in “Training Workshop
on Forest Biodiversity – Conservation
and Management of Forest Genetic Resources”
in Malaysia.
(Added 28 June
07) |
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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)
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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) |
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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)
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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) |
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| 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)
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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)
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| Welcome!!
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| Diverse
Forest
Diverse
Life
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APFORGEN
is a programme to increase conservation
and sustainable use of tropical forest
genetic resources (FGR) in the Asia
Pacific region.
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