The importance of collaboration on PGRFA conservation and use

PGR conservation and use for climate change adaptation

The importance of collaboration

The Global Crop Diversity Trust

% Yield impact for wheat

Observed changes in growing season temperature for crop growing regions, 1980-2008.

Lobell et al (2011)

Thanks to Andy Jarvis for the slide

Average projected % change in suitability for 50 crops, to 2050

Thanks to Andy Jarvis for the slide

http://www.cropwildrelatives.org/fileadmin/bioversity/publications/pdfs/Kew%20250%20CWR%20Talk.pdf

ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/meeting/017/ak532e.pdf

http://dapa.ciat.cgiar.org/towards-a-more-homogenous-world-genetic-resources-and-climate-change/

• 30% increase in climatic interdependence between countries

• 98% of countries more similar to others in 2050 than they currently are

Conservation

Use

Conservation

Use

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Safety backup

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

Active national collections

Breeding/working collections

Farmers/on farm conservation

A rational global system

for the efficient and effective

ex situ conservation and use

of PGRFA

Building a global system

• The Trust established under international law Oct. 2004

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

• Endowment fund 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

Building a global system

• Regenerating accessions at risk in priority collections 22 Annex 1 crops, 67 countries, 101 institutes, 214 collections, 81,000

accessions

identified by experts, regional/crop strategies, regional networks

multilingual regeneration guidelines

• Duplication in Svalbard Global Seed Vault from the regeneration projects on seed crops

other deposits from developing countries

in-trust seed collections held by CGIAR Centres

Regeneration in CAC

• Tajikistan – RNCGR Wheat, barley

• Uzbekistan – UzRIPI Sorghum, maize, wheat, barley

• Armenia – ASAU (ECPGR) Barley, wheat

• Azerbaijan – IGR (+ECPGR) Wheat, barley, pulses

• Georgia – GIF & GSAU (ECPGR) Maize, sorghum, wheat, pulses

Building a global system contd.

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

- http://www.grin-global.org/index.php/Main_Page

Genesys: global accession-level information portal

- SINGER

- EURISCO

- GRIN

- Others: Do you have data you’d like to share with the rest of the world?

http://www.genesys-pgr.org/

Building a global system contd.

• A global initiative to collect and use crop wild relatives Norway-funded

Partnership with Millennium Seed Bank, Kew

Collaboration with national programmes, CGIAR Centres

Targeting “missing” diversity

http://gisweb.ciat.cgiar.org/GapAnalysis/

Of approx. 80,000 total accessions of annual Cicer species

There are 572 accessions of wild annual species

Only 124 of which are unique and distinct

Targeting threatened diversity

Source: Jarvis A. 2009. personal communication.

Targeting threatened diversity

Not just conservation

• Project includes a use component Genotyping

- Phenotyping– Pre-breeding

• Aims Specific traits Base broadening

- For climate change adaptation

How to be a good global citizen

• Ratify the ITPGRFA SMTA

• Share data NISM (FAO)

Genesys

• Share responsibilities at national, regional level• Collaborate on research to solve common problems• Safety duplicate (at CGIAR Centres, Svalbard)• Communicate

Thank you

www.croptrust.org