Date

Title

Program

Venue

Public Awareness Workshop about International Treaty on PGRFA/GCDT

Policy makers in CAC region

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

PGR coordination workshop

NC and PGR Units

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Improved Income and Nutrition in Central Asia and the Caucasus through Enhanced
Market- and Trade-oriented Vegetable Systems Research and Development

Details: http://www.icarda.cgiar.org/cac/

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The Second European Workshop on National Plant Genetic Resources Programmes

Details: http://www.minpolj.sr.gov.yu/workshop.info.htm

Belgrade, Serbia

First International Conference on Health and Biodiversity - COHAB 2005

Details: web: www.cohab2005.com

Galway, Ireland

First International Conference on Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use

Details: http://www.pgrforum.org/conference.htm

Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

Workshop on Cryopreservation in Support of the Conservation of European Plant Genetic Resources

Details: www.ipgri.cgiar.org/events/cryopreservation.htm

Workshop on Cryopreservation in Support of the Conservation of European Plant Genetic Resources

Details: www.ipgri.cgiar.org/events/cryopreservation.htm  

8th ICARDA CAC annual Regional Coordination meeting

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Second meeting of the ECP/GR Medicinal and Aromatic Pl ants Working Group

Strumica, Macedonia FYR

4th International Crop Science Congress

Details: www.cropscience2004.com

Asian Congress on Seed-farming organized by APSA

Details: apsa@apsaseed.com (APSA Secretariat) or www.apsaseed.com

Saul, Korea

First meeting of the ECP/GR Working Group on Solanaceae genetic resources, jointly held with the fifth meeting of the EU funded project Gen Res PL98-113 - 15-16 September 2004, Bari, Italy

Attend from CAC countries - Armenia, Georgia

Photos: http://photofile.ru/default/do.php?aid=197673&np=y

Bari, Italy

The second meeting of the Project entitled
"Development of national programmers on plant genetic resources
in the Caucasus and Northern Black Sea region”

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The seventh Program Steering Committee (PSC) meeting of the CGIAR Collaborative Program for sustainable agricultural development in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC)

Details >

Baku,
Azerbaijan

International Caucasian Conference on Cereals and Food Legumes

Participants: representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, Turkey, Iran; CIMMYT, ICARDA, USDA, FAO, GFAR, WSU

Tbilisi,
Georgia

The Global Crop Diversity Trust

Acd. Abdusatar Abdukarimov has presented CAC region

Rome,
Italy

Dec
8-12

PGR Unit Coordination Meetings

PGR Units of CAC countries will present annual achievements and emphasize future efforts

Tashkent,
Uzbekistan

Oct
14-20

Conservation and Sustainable Use of Grapevine Genetic Resources in Caucasus and Northern Black Sea Region

Tbilisi,
Georgia

Sept
26-28

Seventh ICARDA/CAC Coordination Meeting

Sept
21-27

Twenty second Meeting of the IPGRI Board of Trustees

Sept
15-19

Wheat Project Coordination Meeting

Representatives of ICARDA-GRU, VIR and AWWC have been participating

Sept
11-13

EPGRIS:Final Conference of the EU Project EPGRIS
Organized: EPGRIS and ECP/GR

Such issues as the role of the ECCDBs managers and EURISCO in the global  documentation and information networking will be discussed

Aug
10-13

The Fourth Forest Genetic Resources Meeting of Central Asia and Transcaucasian Network on Plant Genetic Resources (CATN-PGR)
Orginized: IPGRI-SWANA and the NARS of Kyrgyzstan

Finalization of the draft format of the Regional Strategy on FGR, development of recommendations on conservation, regeneration and sustainable use of rare, endemic and endangered forest species, discussion on concept note of a regional project on "Conservation of indigenous forest species and their use in combating land degradation and improving living conditions in mountainous area of CAC

Kyrgyzstan

The Second National Workshops

Organized in all 5 countries of Central Asia under the PDF B phase of the UNEP-GEF projedct on "In Situ/On Farm Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity (Horticulture Crops and Wild Fruit Species) in Central Asia

July
3-5

ECP/GR Cereals Network meeting
Organized: IPGRI and the Ministry of Agriculture of Armenia

Report: http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/Networks/Cereals/cereals.htm

Yerevan,
Armenia

June
12-14

First meeting of the ECP/GR Working Group on Vitis
Organized: IPGRI

June
6

EPGRIS training workshop on PGR documentation: building a National ex situ PGR Inventory
Organized: IPGRI, IHAR

May
24-26

May
22-24

ECP/GR Vegetables Network meeting of the attending members of all the Working Groups of the Network jointly with the ad hoc meeting on Leafy Vegetables.
Organized: in collaboration with the Research Institute of Vegetable Crops, Skierniewice, Poland

Skierniewice,
Poland

May
19-24

The ICARDA Board of Trustees Meeting

Apr
24-26

European Workshop on National Plant Genetic Resources Programmes

Alnarp,
Sweden

Oct
3-4

The first meeting of the International Steering Committee for the PDF B phase on development of the project proposal on "In situ/on farm conservation of the agricultural biodiversity (horticulture crops and wild fruit species) in Central Asia
Organized: IPGRI

The meeting was attended by 20 representatives for Central Asian couriers

Tashkent,
Uzbekistan

Sept
23-25

Sixth Regional ICARDA/CAC Coordination Meeting
Organized: ICARDA/Tajik Academy of Agricultural Sciences

53 senior scientists attended as well as the representatives of ICARDA and other international organizations

Dushambe,
Tajikistan

Sept
6-7

EPGRIS: Second Regional Meeting (Region 3:Central and East Europe)

Prague,
Czech Republic

June

ICARDA coordination and IPGRI regional network coordination meeting

St.Petersburg,
Russia

June
24-26

The Fifth Program Steering Committee Meeting of the CGIAR Collaborative Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in CAC

National Coordinators from all eight countries and representatives from ICARDA and IPGRI have attended . The meeting was inaugurated by Prof., Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, Director General of ICARDA. Acad. Gogotur Agladze (Georgia) was elected as Chairman of the CATCN/PGR Steering Committee and Acad. Jamin Akimaliev (Kyrgyzstan) as Deputy Chairman

Tashkent,
Uzbekistan

June
20-21

Meeting of the Central Asia and Transcaucasus Network on Plant Genetic Resources (CATCN-PGR)
Organized: ICARDA/IPGRI

In total 23 from CAC countries have attended involved in two working groups: on cereal and medical plants. Representatives of ICARDA and IPGRI have participating as well. They reviewed PGR activities for the period 1999-2002 and developed work-plan for 2002-2004

Tashkent,
Uzbekistan

June
5-7

Proceedings of the High-level Pan-European Conference on Agriculture and Biodiversity

Participants

Paris,
France

April
10-12

Coordination workshop for PGR units

24 participants from each of the CAC republics.  Contributions from ICARDA coordinator, dbase specialist and USDA representative

Tashkent,
Uzbekistan

Oct
14-17

Eight Meeting of the Steering Commitee of the ECP/GR

EPGRIS: First Regional Meeting (Region 3:Central and East Europe)

Establishment of an European Plant Genetic Resources Information Infra-Structure (EPGRIS)

First International PGR Steering Committee Meeting; FAO

June
4-6

The Fourth Steering Committee of the CGIAR Program for CAC

Dec
4-6

Regional PGR technical meeting

All countries represented agreed to form independent PGR groups to undertake PGR work at a practical level
Resolutions & Participants

Tashkent,
Uzbekistan

Sept
18-21

Forth ICARDA/CAC Coordination Meeting

Realization that very little PRG work was going on despite national coordinators and so called working groups

Bishkek/Issyk-Kul,
Kyrgyzstan

Sept
27-30

Sept
22-25

Second ICARDA/IPGRI/CAC Coordination Meeting
Funded 100% by ICARDA

Regional Network concept endorsed by attendees to meeting

Almaty,
Kazakhstan