The current global ex situ conservation system. Chapter 2. Where we are today

The concept of a coconut park (Coconut World) was elaborated in Australia to harness the potential of coconut for ecotourism, linked with education, research and genetic

coconut growing communities, this project assessed the technical feasibility, financial viability, social acceptability and environmental safety of coconut-based technologies

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

Scientists are quite well aware that the present capacity of their institutions for seednut production does not adequately meet farmers’ needs, and/or that farmers are

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,