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Adapting Crops Requires Diversity
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Genebanks Conserve Crop Diversity
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Pieces of the Puzzle
Global Crop Diversity Trust Global
Plan of Action
Information Systems
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
International Collections
International Treaty
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National Collections
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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources
• Adopted 2001, entered into force 2004
• International collections covered under Article 15
International Collections
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CGIAR collections, 2013 (number of samples per crop)
– Barley: ICARDA 27,000– Beans: CIAT
36,000– Chickpea: ICARDA + ICRISAT 34,000– Forages: CIAT + ICARDA + ILRI 66,000– Maize: CIMMYT +IITA 28,000– Potato: CIP
7,000– Rice: AfricaRice + IRRI 129,000– Wheat: CIMMYT + ICARDA 167,000
TOTAL for all crops ≈750,000
Approx. 100,000 samples distributed per year
The Global Crop Diversity Trust
• International organization– Secretariat in Bonn, Germany from January 2013
• Policy framework of International Treaty on PGRFA– Element of the funding strategy of the Treaty
• Governed by Executive Board– Treaty, Donors Council, FAO, CGIAR
• Endowment to secure long-term funding– Project funding to overcome key constraints
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Supporting National Genebanks
REGENERATION• 79,725 regenerated• 86 institutes in 77
countries
SAFETY DUPLICATION• 43,676 accessions• 56 countries
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Saving Crop Wild Relatives
Conserving diversity that was left behind during domestication
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Global Gap Analysis
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Genesys: A global information portal for crop diversity
Information Systems
DivSeek: Linking up genetic and agronomic data
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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Phillippine National Genebank Typhoon Xangsane, 2006
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More than 820,000 varieties stored in the vault
Seeds from nearly every country in the world deposited by 58 institutes
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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Pieces of the Puzzle
Global Crop Diversity Trust Global
Plan of Action
Information Systems
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
International Collections
International Treaty
onPGRFA
National Collections
Cost of a Global System
USD 34 million per year
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Endowment Fund of
USD 850 million32
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Thank you
www.croptrust.org
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