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with 6,000 (11%), and Gennany with 19,000 (10%). It is interesting to note the
existence of countries with a high amount of stored germp1asm but with only very
little germplasm movement. Russia (with over 300,000 accessions stored) and
Brazil (over 190,000) have distributed less than 1% of their germplasm in the year
1994. This substantiates the impression made through the information provided by
the Country Reports and the discussions in the past years, that genebanks are still
seen and managed mainly as if they were facilities only to store the diversity of
PGRF A but without any or only a little connection to the utilization of the stored
material. Even a country like Japan, with well-equipped storage facilities and one of
the largest genebanks worldwide (over 200,000 accessions) has distributed less than
7,000 accessions in 1994 (which amounts to 3% of their stored accessions).
(Country Reports, 1995).
The goal achievement for the accessibility of stored accessions is determined by
the quality of the above discussed key indicators and sub-objectives. By utilizing
the matrix described in Appendix 18, an overall quality standard for the
accessibility can be defined for all the relevant countries (see Table 5.19 for the
results).
The most important result is that only 6 countries have a good access standard of
their conserved accessions - making up less than 17% of all surveyed countries
National in situ activities: Because of the lack of sufficient information, the
existence of in situ conservation activities was taken as the only available indicator
to assess the goal achievement of the third overall objective - the adaptation of
PGRF A to changing environmental conditions. As stated earlier (see Chap. 2.4), in
situ conservation activities in the field of conservation of PGRF A diversity is still
uncommon. Therefore, it is not surprising that only 30% of the surveyed countries
mentioned in situ conservation activities (see Table 5.19). There are probably some
more in situ activities in the relevant countries, but they were not mentioned in the
Country Reports, reflecting that these not-mentioned activities are supported by
NGOs and are not linked to national activities.
Finally, the total effectiveness of PGRF A conservation according to the
objectives defined can be obtained by merging the results of the three partial
effectiveness' analyses (see Table 5.19). The same approach was undertaken as it
was utilized to define the quality of the accessibility. A matrix was designed with
all three objectives and their different levels of effectiveness to determine the total
effectiveness of the conservation efforts in the countries (see Table 5-18), based on
the calculations made in Appendix 19).
5 Conservation Costs of PGRFA
with 6,000 (11%), and Gennany with 19,000 (10%). It is interesting to note the
existence of countries with a high amount of stored germp1asm but with only very
little germplasm movement. Russia (with over 300,000 accessions stored) and
Brazil (over 190,000) have distributed less than 1% of their germplasm in the year
1994. This substantiates the impression made through the information provided by
the Country Reports and the discussions in the past years, that genebanks are still
seen and managed mainly as if they were facilities only to store the diversity of
PGRF A but without any or only a little connection to the utilization of the stored
material. Even a country like Japan, with well-equipped storage facilities and one of
the largest genebanks worldwide (over 200,000 accessions) has distributed less than
7,000 accessions in 1994 (which amounts to 3% of their stored accessions).
(Country Reports, 1995).
The goal achievement for the accessibility of stored accessions is determined by
the quality of the above discussed key indicators and sub-objectives. By utilizing
the matrix described in Appendix 18, an overall quality standard for the
accessibility can be defined for all the relevant countries (see Table 5.19 for the
results).
The most important result is that only 6 countries have a good access standard of
their conserved accessions - making up less than 17% of all surveyed countries
National in situ activities: Because of the lack of sufficient information, the
existence of in situ conservation activities was taken as the only available indicator
to assess the goal achievement of the third overall objective - the adaptation of
PGRF A to changing environmental conditions. As stated earlier (see Chap. 2.4), in
situ conservation activities in the field of conservation of PGRF A diversity is still
uncommon. Therefore, it is not surprising that only 30% of the surveyed countries
mentioned in situ conservation activities (see Table 5.19). There are probably some
more in situ activities in the relevant countries, but they were not mentioned in the
Country Reports, reflecting that these not-mentioned activities are supported by
NGOs and are not linked to national activities.
Finally, the total effectiveness of PGRF A conservation according to the
objectives defined can be obtained by merging the results of the three partial
effectiveness' analyses (see Table 5.19). The same approach was undertaken as it
was utilized to define the quality of the accessibility. A matrix was designed with
all three objectives and their different levels of effectiveness to determine the total
effectiveness of the conservation efforts in the countries (see Table 5-18), based on
the calculations made in Appendix 19).