Workshop

Mauricio Parra QuijanoConsultantThe international Treaty on Plant Genetic Resourcesfor Food and AgricultureCAPFITOGEN programme coordinator

Opening session

¿What is CAPFITOGEN programme?

Programme to Strengthen National Plant Genetic Resource Capacities in Latin America

Programme to Strengthen National Plant Genetic Resource Capacities in Iberic-America

(Latin America + Spain + Portugal)

Global Programme to Strengthen National Plant Genetic Resource Capacities

¿What is Strengthen Capacities?

Is to promote all processes which drive to higher levels of autonomy tolead own matters by the target institution.

Autonomy is possible through self-interest, enough economic resourcesand trained human staff.

CAPFITOGEN works with/for the human resources:

• Developing suitable technology for use as autonomous aspossible

• Training technical personnel in the use of this technology

CAPFITOGEN offers adapted technology options to technician/institutesunder limited economic resources work conditions, train this staff andencouraging the autonomous capacity in PGR conservation and use

¿How CAPFITOGEN builds capacity?

• Developing adapted technology for the target region

• Transferring technology to staff from involved institutions

• Training this staff through face-to-face workshops

• Offering support to users which have adopted the transferredtechnology

• Improving continuously the offered technology

¿What type of technology we develop?

• Technology specifically designed for efficient conservation andutilization of plant genetic resources (crop + wild relatives)

• Supported by scientific advances which have been published in peerreview journals

• In most cases, the same team who developed the scientific advance isinvolved in the process of developing adapted technology and itstransfer

• Easy to use. CAPFITOGEN technology does not require advancedcomputer skills

• Very low cost of adoption (only a PC as input)

• Technology impact on daily activities that institutions are currentlycarrying out, making them more efficient

• Designed to maximize the use of information on germplasm(documentation), making available processes that usually are notaccessible in low resources conditions

CAPFITOGEN tools are adapted technologies ready-to-use. They are useful to:

¿What CAPFITOGEN tools are?

To evaluate of the quality of georeferenced information on passport data.

To obtain ecogeographical land characterization (ELC) maps and scenarios reflecting species adaptation for a country or region.

To perform analysis of eco-geographical representativeness of a species within a germplasm collection.

To carry out ecogeographical germplasm characterization by analyzing over a hundred variables.

Mapping areas of high ecogeographical , phenotypical and/or genotypic variability, based on the determination of mean ecogeographic, phenotypic or genotypic distances.

To develop core germplasm collections by applying proportional allocation strategies.

To select appropriate germplasm for specific crop breeders interests supported by ecogeographical information.

¿What CAPFITOGEN tools are?

Initially they were focused on ex situ conservation, although some of them have several applications even out of PGR scenario.

Phase 1: Our goals achieved

2012-2014

Seven tools focused on ex situ conservationUser guidesThree languages (Spanish, English, Portuguese)Two regional (Latin American) workshopsFour national workshops (Cuba, Spain, Honduras, Uruguay)About 150 trained technicians

¿What CAPFITOGEN tools are?

Phase 2: Our next challenges

2014-2016

Three new tools focused on in situ conservationUser’s networksE-Learning methodsTools on server (internet connection required, no installation)One final regional (Latin America + Spain + Portugal) workshopFour national workshops

For the second phase, CAPFITOGEN program will try to expand its impact out of Latin America but continuing with training and education activities in this region. In terms of tools, CAPFITOGEN will focus on in situ conservation applications.

… beside this, CAPFITOGEN tools are

Free of charge

Free distribution

Internet connection is not required

Suitable for Windows OS (minimum Windows XP required)

Accessible through USB memories (by request or distributed during the worksops) and internet download

Available on Spanish, Portuguese and English, both the tools and user manual.

Graphically they are obtained as follow:

Idea + methodology development on GISand/or ecogeography applied on PGR

Theoretical and practical scientific validation

Publication (peer review)

Data preparation R script development

Java / tomcat interface

Tool + documentation

Assistance

CAPFITOGEN tool release / distribution

The list of available CAPFITOGEN tools

• GEOQUAL

• ELCmapas

• ECOGEO

• Representa

• Colnucleo

• DIVmapas

• FIGS_R

CAPFITOGEN program is an effort of

Funded by:With technical support of:

Slides presentations in english (Slideshare links)

Openinghttp://www.slideshare.net/hmparraq/opening-36955185

Presentation 1 – Basis of the Application of Ecogeography in Plant Genetic Resourceshttp://www.slideshare.net/hmparraq/presentation1-ecogeographic-basis

Presentation 2 –GEOQUAL, ELCmapas and ECOGEO toolshttp://www.slideshare.net/hmparraq/presentation2-geoqual-elcmapas-ecogeo

Presentation 3 –Representa and DIVmapas toolshttp://www.slideshare.net/hmparraq/presentation3-representa-divmapas

Presentation 4 –ColNucleo and FIGS_R toolshttp://www.slideshare.net/hmparraq/presentation4-col-nucleofigsr

Presentation 5 – Installing and usehttp://www.slideshare.net/hmparraq/presentation5-installation-use

Thanks! And welcome to the CAPFITOGEN workshop