The CacaoNet Steering Committee has accorded high priority to the development of the long-term conservation strategy of cacao genetic resources. This webpage contains documents related to the strategy and readers are cordially invited to provide feedback on these documents, in particular on the draft strategy paper. The latter is at present a framework documents and detailed strategic action plans for important routine areas will be developed in due course and will be included on this page.

• Global Cacao Conservation strategy - Engels et al. (95.50 Kb)
• Safe movement cacao - Technical guidelines - End M, Daymond A and Hadley P (3.37 Mb)

 
Following the 16th International Cocoa Research Conference (ICRC),  complementary information is available in PowerPoint format:

• Development of a strategy to select a base collection of Theobroma cacao L. for Conservation (Cryer, N, University Of Reading, UK)
  
  
• Stakeholder Consultation
  
  
• Minimum Descriptor List for GS Cacao Collection
  
  
• The role of International Cocoa Genebanks in the CacaoNET Global Strategic Active Collection (Sukha D,  International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad )
  
  
• Information Management System of CacaoNet (Turnbull C, University Of reading, UK )