Contents:

• A New NordGen Provides New Possibilities!
• Old Pastures & Old Livestock Breeds: A Perfect Match?
• Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Symbol and Reality
• Hidden Treasure – 2008 is the International Year of the Potato
• A ’Danish Giant’ Asparagus
• Climate Change – A Challenge for Plants!
• Nordic Cooperation on Genetic Resources under Sweden's Chair of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2008
• The Finnhorse – A Versatile All-rounder
• Norwegian Red (NRF) – Enjoying International Success
• Contingency Flocks for Poultry
• Swedish National Action Plan for the Management of Farm Animal Genetic Resources
• The Icelandic Leadersheep
• Spruce Memory Enables Rapid Adaptation to Climate Change
• Special Tree Forms – A Poorly Utilised Forest Genetic Resource genresurs i våra skogar