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WWWFAO Soils Portal
WWWGeoNetwork
WWWGlobal Land Cover Characterization
WWWWorldClim ‒ Global Climate Data (1km resolution grids of climate and derived bioclimatic datasets)
WWWWorld Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) Protected Planet
WWWWorld Soil Database: Harmonized World Soil Database v1.2
WWWBioCASE ‒ Biological Collection Access Service for Europe
WWWBioversity International’s Collecting Missions Database
WWWCIP (International Potato Center) Biomart Portal
WWWConsortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria (CPNWH) (portal to the regional herbaria of the Pacific Northwest North America)
WWWCrop Wild Relative Global Occurrence Database
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WWWEURISCO (European search catalogue of ex situ PGR accessions)
WWWEuropean Native Seed Conservation Network (ENSCOBASE) (European database of major ex situ botanic garden genebank holdings)
WWWGBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
WWWGENESYS ‒ the Global Gateway to Genetic Resources (global database of major ex situ gene bank holdings)
WWWInter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)
WWWJSTOR (herbaria resources)
WWWKew Bibliographic Databases (provides links to the Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature, Economic Botany and Plant Micromorphology databases)
WWWKew Herbarium Catalogue (herbaria database)
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DIVA-GIS (geographic information system software, tutorials, documentation, spatial data, discussion forum) (freely available)
GRASS GIS (freely available)
gvSIG (freely available)
Marxan (conservation planning) (freely available)
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The Interactive Toolkit for Crop Wild Relative Conservation Planning was developed within the framework of the SADC CWR project www.cropwildrelatives.org/sadc-cwr-project (2014-2016),
which was co-funded by the European Union and implemented through ACP-EU Co-operation Programme in Science and Technology (S&T II) by the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States.
Grant agreement no FED/2013/330-210.