Rebuilding the Rwandan Tree Seed Centre - Seeds of Hope Project
Mugungu, C.; Atta Krah, K.; Niang, A.; Boland, D.
Forest Genetic Resources 24: 44-46
1996
Document Number: 229685
The Rwandan Tree Seed Centre (RTSC) is part of the Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Rwanda (ISAR) and has responsibility for the collection, preservation and distribution of tree germplasm for agroforestry, reforestation and other tree planting programmes in the entire highlands region of East Africa. It has a close relationship with ICRAF, which was the first organization to visit it after the end of the war in mid-1994, when it advised on rehabilitation. Since then the CGIAR initiative known as the Seeds of Hope project (with a main focus on crop seeds) has been started, but emergency support and rehabilitation of the RTSC supported by ICRAF, CSIRO, CIAT, AusAID, World Vision (an NGO) and the Swiss Development Corporation, is being carried out as part of this. The work being done is briefly outlined.