This is the presentation given by Luigi Guarino, Senior Scientist of the Crop Trust, at the 11 June 2014 information event in Berlin co-hosted by GIZ.

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Adapting Crops Needs Diversity

5. Conserving Crop Diversity to Use It
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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
on
PGRFA
National
Collections

7. International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources
• Adopted 2001, entered into
force 2004
• International collections
covered under Article 15
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8. International Collections

9. 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
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10. The Global Crop Diversity Trust
• International organization
– Secretariat in Bonn 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

11. Supporting National Genebanks
REGENERATION
• 79,725 regenerated
• 86 institutes in 77
countries
SAFETY DUPLICATION
• 43,676 accessions
• 56 countries
• 12 not Treaty parties
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12. Crop Wild Relatives
Saving diversity that’s been
left behind
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15. Global Gap Analysis
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16. Genesys: A global information portal for crop diversity
Information Systems

17. Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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18. Global Crop Diversity Trust; Stattsbygg

19. Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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20. Phillippine National Genebank
Typhoon Xangsane, 2006
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21. 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
on
PGRFA
National
Collections

23. Cost of a Global System
Only USD 34 million per year
or an
Endowment Fund of USD 850 million
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24. Thank you
www.croptrust.org
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