Cocoa pods, Venezuela. Photo: C.Lanaud ©CIRAD
Arabica coffee, Ethiopia. Photo: ©Jean-Pierre Labouisse
Yams in Benin. Photo: J-L Pham ©IRD
Rice harvest, Guinea. Photo: J-L Pham ©IRD
Maize corn. Photo: ©Brigitte Gouesnard

International Workshop on Crop Agrobiodiversity Monitoring

ARCAD hosted on 23-25 March 2015 the International Workshop on Crop Agrobiodiversity Monitoring at Agropolis International, Montpellier, France. About 40 researchers from Europe, Africa, Asia, and South-America attended the event. A workshop report is being developed, and the presentations materials (in English) are now available online.

The workshop aimed to take stock of the on-going crop agrobiodiversity monitoring initiatives in the world, in order to develop strategies for the years to come, through 4 sessions:
-    Session 1: “Why and for whom monitoring crop agrobiodiversity?”
-    Session 2: “Monitoring crop agrobiodiversity: what and how?”
-    Session 3: “Integrating data / information systems”
-    Session 4: Toward joint research proposal

This workshop was co-organised by ARCAD, Bioversity International, Cirad and IRD with the support of Agropolis Fondation, FEDER Languedoc-Roussillon, INRA and Montpellier SupAgro.

  • Introduction- Jean-Louis Pham & Elizabeth Arnaud

Session 1: “Why and for whom monitoring crop Agrobiodiversity?”

  • Crop Agrobiodiversity conservation and monitoring status in Ethiopia - Delessa Angassa
  • Dynamics of in situ diversity of rice in Guinea: elements for setting up a monitoring system - Billo Barry
  • Monitoring crop Agrobiodiversity, Challenges & opportunities: a case of Kenya - Zachary Muthamia
  • Management of plant genetic resources in Senegal: status of the Senegalese Institute of Agricultural research’s work - Mame Codou
  • The perspective of the International Treaty on PGFRA on monitoring process and data - Francisco Lopez & Mario Marino
  • Agrobiodiversity monitoring in Bioversity-  Ehsan Dulloh & Fabrice Declerck
  • Perspectives on agrobiodiversity monitoring from the Green Movement of Sri Lanka - Lal Wakkumbure
  • Agropolis : why getting involved into agrobiodiversity monitoring ? - Yves Vigouroux

Session 2 "Monitoring crop ABD: what and how?

  • The Rainbow Route: monitoring long-term in-situ conservation of potato landraces in diversity hotspots in South America - Severin Polreich
  • Backward and forward crop diversity monitoring in Africa - Christian Leclerc
  • Crowdsourcing for access and monitoring - Jacob Van Etten
  • Seed systems - Jeske Vandevegel
  • Studying seed circulation using social network analysis: lessons from the NETSEED project funded by CESAB-FRB - Sophie Caillon
  • Ecosystem services and agrobiodiversity monitoring - Fabrice Declerck
  • Monitoring crop genetic diversity: where do we stand? - Ehsan Dulloh
  • How might monitoring ABD inform decision on land use? The example of land sparing versus land sharing debate - Toby Hodgkin
  • How many species, how many scales to study the uses of agrobiodiversity in the lake Chad basin? Methodological trade-offs on the Plantadiv research program (2008-2012) - Eric Garin

Session 3 “Integrating data / information systems”

  • From information to monitoring systems - Elisabeth Arnaud
  • Feed-backs on a large-scale citizen science participatory initiative on plant observation - Pierre Bonnet
  • Crowdsourcing, citizen science - Jeske van de Gevel
  • Ontology-based data management: lesson learned for ABD monitoring systems - Pierre Larmande
  • Context and semantics in Seed Exchanges Network - Pierre Martin
  • Local information systems: AKIH proposal - Claire Billot
  • The RGSCOPE initiative - Robin Goffaux
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility and agrobiodiversity data - Dmitry Schigel

Published: 18/05/2015