Building a Global System for PGRFA -- TogetherBuilding a Global System for PGRFA -- TogetherBuilding a Global System for PGRFA -- TogetherBuilding a Global System for PGRFA -- Together

The Global Crop Diversity Trust and VIRThe Global Crop Diversity Trust and VIRThe Global Crop Diversity Trust and VIRThe Global Crop Diversity Trust and VIR

www.croptrust.orgwww.croptrust.orgwww.croptrust.orgwww.croptrust.org

Birth of the TrustBirth of the Trust

• Established under international law Oct. 2004

• Jointly founded by FAO and Bioversity (on behalf of CGIAR)

• Endowment fund Fund at $110 mill long-term grants ($1.8 mill/year)

+ project funds (e.g. Gates Foundation)

• Essential element of funding strategy of ITPGRFA

• Technical framework is Global Plan of Action

The visionThe vision

A rational global system

for the efficient and effective

ex situ conservation and use

of PGRFA

Conservation

Use

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Safety backup

Long-term collections (e.g. CG Centres, regional genebanks etc.)

National genebanks

Breeding/working collections

Farmers

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• Regenerating accessions at risk in priority collections

22 crops, 67 countries, 101 institutes, 81,000 accessions

identified by experts, regional networks

multilingual regeneration guidelines

• Duplication in Svalbard Global Seed Vault

from the regeneration projects on seed crops

in-trust seed collections held by CGIAR Centres

VIR and others

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• Information and information systems data management system for genebanks -- GRIN-Global

global portal for searching collections, worldwide -- Genesys

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• Regeneration, characterization, documentation of legume and forage crops (pea, faba bean, bean, lentil, chickpea, cowpea, forages) 2005-2009 – $229,405 Regenerated 3,022 legume and 6,779 forage accessions

• “…allowed VIR to regenerate a part of forage and grain legume accessions with critically low germinating ability and to put fresh seed for long- and medium-term storage. Besides, the Project facilitated repatriation of a part of accessions to the republics of the former USSR. These accessions were regenerated in the countries they originate from and should enrich national PGR collections.”

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• Regeneration, characterization and safety duplication of unique, endangered accessions of wheat, barley, maize, sorghum, bean, grasspea, cowpea, faba bean, chickpea, lentil & potato 2009-2011 – $250,000 Regenerated 4,591 accessions

Plan to send 2,000 accessions to Svalbard in June 2011

Deposited 945 accessions at opening of Svalbard, February 2008

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• Information systems upgrading 2011-2012 – $181,200 Hardware Genebank management software and training Translate and digitize 90 catalogues (and field journals)

of cereal, legume, forages, oil crops and fruits

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• Ratify the ITPGRFA• Share data

NISM (FAO) Genesys (via Eurisco)

• Collaborate at national, regional level Coordinated national programme European network – ECP/GR

• Safety duplicate (including at Svalbard)• Communicate

One of the lessons of Pavlovsk...

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