The website of the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) contains a `Capacity-building corner` providing information about GCP training events, fellowship and grant opportunities, and other human resource development activities in the fields of plant genetic resources, genomics and molecular breeding. One of the corner`s components, on `learning materials`, has recently been greatly expanded, so that now it contains a distant learning module for scientists covering genetic resource policies and implications on freedom to operate (developed in collaboration with Wageningen University and Research Centre); a self-study introductory online course on crop bioinformatics (a joint project between the GCP and the International Rice Research Institute); and a new learning module on genomics and comparative genomics (developed jointly by the GCP and Cornell Universitys Institute for Genomic Diversity). See http://www.generationcp.org/sp5/?da=08123058 or contact [email protected] for more information.

20/09/2008