Rome, Italy
June 27, 2008
Source:
http://km.fao.org/gipb/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=33&Itemid=140
Food and energy
prices are soaring, changes in environmental and climatic
conditions are bringing new challenges to food production, and
crops for bio-energy generation are conveying new opportunities
as well as challenges to the agricultural sector. This new
scenario being faced by today’s world is calling the attention
to crop diversity management and use, areas of applied science
that have been neglected in the recent decades. Better use of
genetic diversity through pre-breeding and breeding, in
association with improved production systems are being
highlighted as the best ways to tackle the huge challenge of
widening the genetic and adaptability base of cropping systems,
especially in developing countries.
Recognizing these
challenges, the Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding
Capacity Building (GIPB), in coordination with the Global Crop
Diversity Trust (The Trust) and the CGIAR Generation Challenge
Programme (GCP), lauches its first call for proposals on
"Promoting the Use of Crop Diversity to Help Address
Environmental and Climate Challenges". All interested parties
are invited to submit proposals, which are going to be
considered, based on their synergy and complementarity, for
award in early 2009. For the GIPB call, all applications must
be received by 1st September 2008.
See below more
information on the three calls:
The Global Partnership
Initiative for Plant
Breeding Capacity Building
Call. GIPB operates
a pilot program to support
plant breeders dedicated to
widening the genetic and
adaptability base of
improved cultivars in
developing countries. The
call for proposals by GIPB
targets pre-breeding
programmes in national
agricultural research
systems (NARS), academia,
and civil society
organisations. See below
the announcement for the
submission of proposals
under this award scheme.
Please, note that
applications must be made in
English, on an official
proposal template, also
available below.
Announcement:
English
Español
Français
Proposal Template:
English
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