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SECURING OUR FOOD, FOREVER More than A Global Genebank 730,000 Partnership varieties conserved The cost of conserving crop diversity is Long-term Grants remarkably low relative to the massive benefitsitbrings.Afterall,we’retalking The Crop Diversity Endowment Fund provides real financial aboutthefoundationofourfood. security to collections of crop diversity by guaranteeing funding at agreed levels, year in and year out. Nevertheless, meeting the long-term operational cost of Currently, the Crop Trust has signed agreements to provide the conservation of most crop diversity collections is rarely such ‘in perpetuity’ funding to some of the world’s most on a secure, sustainable footing. Many genebanks, even important collections of 17 crops. As the endowment the most important ones, stagger on from one funding grows, the Crop Trust will be able to secure more and more cycle to the next, with little scope for long-term planning. crops through fully funded long-term grants. The reliability of funding is absolutely crucial – a shortfall in financial resources can lead to the permanent loss of The Genebanks unique varieties. The Crop Trust’s objective is to ensure stable, predictable funding for a global system of crop The most important collections of crop diversity in the collections, in perpetuity. world are managed by 11 CGIAR centers on behalf of the world community under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. These genebanks hold some of the largest, diverse, best documented and most widely used collections of the crops critically important to global food security. The CRP But what’s to be done until the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund is complete? To address this challenge, the Crop Trust has entered into a five-year partnership with the CGIAR Consortium to manage and provide sustainable support for the crop collections held at CGIAR Centers until the end of 2016. GENEBANKS LEARN MORE ABOUT CGIAR The Genebanks GENEBANKS ON OUR WEBSITE www.croptrust.org Supported by the Crop Trust Genebanks Crops Varieties Rice C a en c t ri e f r AfricaRice Rice 19,983 A C e e n u t Benin q r i e r d f u lÕA riz pour International Institue for Cowpea, Yam, Cassava, 30,388 Tropical Agriculture Soybeans and Bambara Nigeria Ground Nut Bioversity International Banana 1,455 Belgium International Maize and Wheat Maize and Wheat 175,526 Improvement Center Mexico International Center for Agricultural Barley, Chickpea, Faba Bean, 136,350 Research in the Dry Areas Forages, Lentil, Wheat and Syria Grass Pea International Center for Tropical Bean, Cassava and Forages 67,574 Agriculture Colombia International Crops Research Institute Chickpea, Groundnut, Minor 129,081 for the Semi-Arad Tropics Millet, Pearl Millet, Sorghum India and Pigeon Pea International Livestock Research Forages 17,716 Institute Kenya International Potato Center Andean Roots and Tubers, 15,756 Peru Potato and Sweet Potato International Rice Research Institute Rice 121,595 Phillipines World Agroforestry Center Agroforestry Trees 5,490 Kenya Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees Aroids and Yams 1,467 Fiji +49 228 85427 122 www.croptrust.org Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7 +49 228 85427 144 [email protected] 53113 Bonn, Germany.

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