GRAIN on IRRI

by Luigi on April 22, 2009

I suppose GRAIN’s video slideshow on IRRI and its genebank was meant as a bit of a takedown.¹ But actually it works very well as a plea for comprehensive, complementary genetic resources management strategies, encompassing both ex situ and in situ, genebanks and farmers, conservation and use. And as such I choose to approach it.

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Thanks to Eliseu for the tip. [↩]

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