Both a legacy of domestication and agriculture, and a lever for new knowledge and innovations adapted to our current and future needs, genetic resources are a veritable bridge between our past and our future. This large family includes plants, animals and micro-organisms. But what do we do with them? Why do we need to care about them? Dive into the heart of genetic resources.

GenRes Bridge organized a workshop "Sharing Perspectives" in Tuusula, Finland, on October 28-30, 2019. This event brought together 74 participants from 57 partner organizations to share expertise related to crop, animal and forest genetic resources.

PRESS RELEASE - Biodiversity is essential for ecosystem resilience, food security and health. It is a precious heritage and a common good that must be preserved for its own sake, but also for the ecosystem services on which human societies depend. But the multiplication of pressures linked to human activities, aggravated by climate change, have led to a decline in biodiversity. In this context, INRAE's research concerns many environments, from mountains to coasts, including forests, aquatic environments, and agroecosystems. Scientists are working to better understand biodiversity and its dynamics, and to develop, with local stakeholders, solutions to preserve and restore biodiversity and manage environments in a sustainable manner.

Discover the activities and resources of the RARe infrastructure, whose agronomic BRCs are at the heart of major research issues for the future. RARe brings together animal, environmental, plant, microbial and forest biological resources, with the support of the research organizations INRAE, CIRAD and IRD. This special issue "Innovations in Agricultural Resources for Research" presents a sample of the immense diversity of RARe resources.

View replays and presentations from the FAO webinar series on cryopreservation of animal genetic resources organized in cooperation with the Nordic Genetic Resources Center.