The webinar “Bringing it all together: tools and resources for planning and scaling up fit-for-purpose seed supply for Forest and Landscape Restoration,” jointly organized with Bioversity International, will be held on Tuesday 20 October 2020.

Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) can contribute to mitigating and supporting societies in the adaptation to climate change impacts. Restored landscapes will only be able to fulfil societal benefits if these systems have built-in capacity to adapt to changing environments. To do so, restoration activities must consider the importance of Forest Genetic Resources (FGR) to establish ecosystems consisting of viable and genetically diverse populations that are resilient in the present and future environmental conditions.

 The webinar will provide knowledge and guidance on:

• the range of available practical tools and approaches for planning and implementing seed collection, documentation and species-site-matching for delivering resilient FLR at scale;
• demonstration of available databases on native species distributions, tools to support restoration planning such as Diversity for Restoration (D4R);
• good practices for documenting and sharing information about seed sources and seed collection such as the use of the SeedIT Application;
• lessons learned during the implementation of tools and guidance documents.

For more information contact Caterina Marchetta at [email protected]