IN SITU 2001
E-CONFERENCE

Tematic Moderator:
Miguel Holle PhD. CIP/CONDESAN

Technical Moderador:
Ana María Ponce, CIP/CONDESAN
InfoAndina - CONDESAN

November 5 - December 17, 2001

The topic of In-Situ germplasm conservation has captured a lot of attention during the past few years. Some scientists believe that InSitu conservation will be complement efficiently the efforts for ex-situ conservation, others doubt it. Several colleagues from the Andean Region and abroad are working on this research topic.The in situ fora have been carried every two years since 1995. The format is that of a regular Scientific Meeting . Previous response has motivated us to organize a fourth forum on the subject of InSitu Conservation within an E-conference mode. We will have a Program as if we were together in a face-to-face meeting somewhere in the world. The scope of the conference is global.

You can consult the structure and content of previous events at : http://www.condesan.org/rta/foro.htm

We wish to extend our base of participants helping them to improve their connectivity during the E-Conference. We will select some special cases that will require support to connect from remote rural regions, and we will try to provide technical support to facilitate their participation.

Write specific experiences in the field about aspects related to in-situ conservation, emphasizing cases of agrobiodiversity The description can include the socio-economic context; cultivars and its varieties, production types, seed flow and marketing, usage, etc.

The contribution can be in the form of regular articles or as short technical notes.

Evaluate in a critical way the methodology of monitoring the temporal and spacial dynamics of phenotypes or varieties under in-situ conditions at the farm , local, regional o national levels.

Publish the results of the workshop in electronic and/or printed form.

The in-situ conservation cases that were presented, the methodological articles and some discussion papers that were presented in the previous InSitu95, InSitu97 and InSitu 99 E-Conferences are avaialble in the Virtual Library of CONDESAN at :

The abstracts of the InSitu95 E-Conference articles are available at URL: http://www.condesan.org/Biodiver/InSitu/insit95s.htm

The abstracts of the InSitu97 E-Conference articles are available at URL: http://www.condesan.org/Biodiver/InSitu/insit97lib.htm

The abstracts of the InSitu99 E-Conference articles are available at URL: http://www.condesan.org/infoandina/Foros/insitu99/insitu_99.htm

Summaries in english and spanish will be accepted. Articles written in english will have a spanish summary and vice-versa. The Forum organizers can help in the matter if requested explicitly.

1. July 15th to October 15, 2001: Periodic Call-for-papers. Any interested persons can send the title of their contribution first. We will receive abstract and full papers at any time until the deadlines. (See below). We will be arranging a skeleton program and perfecting it as were receive these elements and the assurance from the participant that he will have his contribution in time.

2. DEADLINE FOR RECEPTION OF TITLES and ABSTRACTS will be October 15th . On that date we will produce the program and circulate it. DEADLINE for the Submission of the articles or tecnical notes in FULL is ONE WEEK before the date that the contribution is scheduled in the Forum Program between November 5th and and December 17th.

We kindly request the support of our partner networks to disseminate this announcement among your members.

1. The organizers will circulate summaries of the articles to all the participants the first day of each week between November 5th and December 17th, according to the program.

For each paper or tecnical article submitted and during each week, the participants can send their comments or questions to InfoAndina@cgiar.org. The comments and questions will be compiled and circulated among all registered participants at the end of each week.

2. The meeting will take place between November 5th and December 17th, 2001. The week of November 26th thru 30 th we will take a "Virtual Coffe Break" in order to review our participation in the Forum.

The proceedings of the Forum will be deposited in the virtual library of CONDESAN. If possible, we will edit and publish the proceedings.

We will use the following communication channels:

E-Mail discussion list created by CONDESAN-InfoAndina: InSitu2001@topica.com

WEB page: All the articles and comments will be filed in the InSitu2001 WEB site available at the start of the Forum.