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Plant breeding resources brought together

The Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB) has just released a new version of its Knowledge Resource Center for plant breeders:

One of the main objectives of GIPB is the establishment of a Knowledge Resource Center, including a shared information portal covering key areas such as training needs and opportunities, access to conventional and molecular breeding technologies and genetic resources, general information on breeding programmes and useful links.

Check it out.

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Ecology, with an Ö

Carnival alert! Oekologie, a blog carnival about, er, ecology, is back after a short break, hosted by Jennifer at Infinite Sphere. Lots (and lots) about birds, but also some aggish posts that joined ours in the section on Conservation and Social Responsibility. To whit:

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Climate Change Gabfest

Our colleagues at the Agrobiodiversity Platform will next week launch an intense debate on how communities make use of agricultural biodiversity to deal with changing climates. But, mindful of their duty not to exacerbate the problem, they’re doing the whole thing online, with a moderated discussion forum. The discussions will take place over about three weeks, with an initial focus on sharing knowledge about what communities are doing, followed by ideas on awareness raising and finally some wrap-up and the preparation of a first-draft position paper.

I know I don’t have time to participate, but I’m sure we’d be willing to host summary reports from the group here.