SECURING OUR FOOD, FOREVER

More than A Global Genebank 730,000 Partnership varieties conserved

The cost of conserving diversity is Long-term Grants ­remarkably low relative to the massive ­benefits it brings. After all, we’re talking The Endowment Fund provides real financial about the foundation of our food. 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 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 . 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 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 . 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 19,983 A

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International Institue for Cowpea, , , 30,388 Tropical Agriculture Soybeans and Bambara Nigeria Ground Nut

Bioversity International 1,455 Belgium

International and Maize and Wheat 175,526 Improvement Center Mexico

International Center for Agricultural , 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, 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

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