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United for Diversity

The System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) unites the CGIAR’s independent agricultural research Centres in a common effort to sustain biodiversity for current and future generations. The diversity embodied in plant, animal, forest and aquatic genetic resources supplies the building blocks for sustainable agriculture to fight poverty, bring health and food security, and protect the environment.

About SGRP

The SGRP is the culmination of a long-standing collaborative partnership among CGIAR Centre scientists and technicians involving sharing of know-how and joint action to address common research problems. The focus of the collaboration has always been the CGIAR Centre genebanks’ plant genetic resources collections and the challenges surrounding their management.  

The CGIAR Genetic Resources Community releases a Position Paper outlining their Vision for the Future

The Position Paper, entitled “An Integrated Approach to Genetic Resources in Support of the CGIAR’s Mission”, reflects the consolidated vision developed collectively by the entire genetic resources community of the CGIAR. The Position Paper proposes a coherent approach to the management of agricultural biodiversity that includes forestry, livestock, aquatic, microbial as well as crop plant genetic resources, all encompassed within an ecosystem perspective and a complementary strategy for their conservation and enhanced use. In preparation for the imminent restructuring of the CGIAR, the Inter-Centre Working Group on Genetic Resources - ICWG-GR (which is the steering committee for SGRP and is composed of representatives from each of the CGIAR Centres and FAO working with genetic resources) met, together with a few invited external experts, for a week-long workshop in Mombasa, Kenya to discuss options for the future role of the CGIAR in the field of genetic resources for food and agriculture. The outcome of the Mombasa workshop was a coherent, integrated vision for genetic resources within the CGIAR to enhance the Centres contribution to our partners and stakeholders worldwide in this area of critical importance in which the CGIAR has historically played a central role. By promoting this vision, the ICWG-GR is keen to help improve the CGIAR's ability to function as a true System, and to mobilize the potential of the in-trust germplasm collections and other genetic resources to do what they are meant to do: increase production, improve livelihoods and adapt to change.

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ICRISAT genebank restores pearl millet germplasm in Sudan

Farmer carrying pearl millet on his headFarmer carrying pearl millet on his headICRISAT genebank has made available the seed samples of 584 available pearl millet accessions to Sudan following a request from the Plant Genetic Resources (PGR) Unit of the Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC) in Sudan. The ARC in Wad Medani, Sudan requested ICRISAT for a complete set of the pearl millet genetic resources accessions collected from Sudan for the purposes of conservation and enhancement of utilization by the scientific community of Sudan.

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