European genetic resources conservation in a rapidly changing world : three existential challenges for the crop, forest and animal domains in the 21st century

Lefévre, François (author), Bojkovski, Danijela (author), Bou Dagher Kharrat, Magda (author), Bozzano, Michele (author), Charvolin-Lemaire, Eléonore (author), Hiemstra, Sipke Joost (author), Kraigher, Hojka (author), Laloë, Denis (author), Restoux, Gwendal (author), Sharrock, Suzanne (author), Sturaro, Enrico (author), Hintum, Theo J. L. van (author), Westergren, Marjana (author), Maxted, Nigel (author)

Even though genetic resources represent a fundamental reservoir of options to achieve sustainable development goals in a changing world, they are overlooked in the policy agenda and severely threatened. The conservation of genetic resources relies on complementary in situ and ex situ approaches appropriately designed for each type of organism. Environmental and socioeconomic changes raise new challenges and opportunities for sustainable use and conservation of genetic resources. Aiming at a more integrated and adaptive approach, European scientists and genetic resources managers with long experience in the agricultural crop, animal and forestry domains joined their expertise to address three critical challenges: (1) how to adapt genetic resources conservation strategies to climate change, (2) how to promote in situ conservation strategies and (3) how can genetic resources conservation contribute to and benefit from agroecological systems. We present here 31 evidence-based statements and 88 key recommendations elaborated around these questions for policymakers, conservation actors and the scientific community. We anticipate that stakeholders in other genetic resources domains and biodiversity conservation actors across the globe will have interest in these crosscutting and multi-actor recommendations, which support several biodiversity conservation policies and practices.

• Language: English
• Keywords: agroecology, climate change, in situ conservation, multi-actor engagement, policy
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 13-28
• Numbering: Vol. 5, iss. 9
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-155384
• UDC: 630*16
• ISSN on article: 2708-3764
• DOI: 10.46265/genresj.REJR6896
• COBISS.SI-ID: 188439043
• Publication date in RUL: 28.03.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Genetic resources
• Shortened title: Genet. resour.
• Publisher: European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
• ISSN: 2708-3764
• COBISS.SI-ID: 103605251

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: agroekologija, podnebne spremembe, ohranjanje in situ, sodelovanje, politika

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: European Commission
• Project number: 817580
• Name: Joining forces for genetic resources and biodiversity management
• Acronym: GenRes Bridge