Involvement of farmers in breeding and seednut production. Chapter 2. Where we are today

Making controlled hand-pollination (CHP) is costly, time-consuming and complex. The visits conducted in many countries by the COGENT Secretariat highlighted that existing

international forum in which important subjects have been usefully debated, contributing to the relevance and focusing of this Strategy. All these partners, particularly those

For example, mapping collecting sites has allowed visualizing and extrapolating the distribution of targeted species, as well as locating areas of higher genetic diversity, and

The researchers in charge of the national coconut genetic resources programme are responsible for giving international names to the germplasm from their country.. However, they

on the advice of the COGENT secretariat, in 2013 and 2014 CRP-FTA and Bioversity International funded three internships (two MScs and a PhD) to assist researchers in cleaning,

In 1999, the COGENT Steering Committee took the decision to release the CGRD into the public domain, in order to disseminate this useful information and create public awareness

COGENT’s nascent international thematic action groups (ITAGs- see Annex 4) also embrace a number of other individuals and institutions who have provided supporting

the meeting, it was observed that most of the national breeding programmes preferred to rely on their local cultivars rather than to introduce advanced varieties from the