International coconut nomenclature. Chapter 2. Where we are today

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

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,

20 Global Strategy for the Conservation and Use of Coconut Genetic Resources In the past, many islanders were forced to work in coconut plantations or at smoky copra drying

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