SGRP Network

About SGRP: United for Diversity

The genetic diversity of crop plant, livestock, forestry and aquatic species is the basis of improved production in natural and managed ecosystems. It fuels biological innovation and adaptation in the face of change, and is thus the key to sustainability of production. Biodiversity is unique among the Earth’s resources in that it can be used without being used up. But it can also be lost without being used.

To know more about SGRP:

CGIAR Centres

Africa Rice Center

All Centres

Bioversity International

CGIAR-IAU

CIAT - Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical

CIFOR - Centre for International Forestry Research

CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo

CIP - Centro Internacional de la Papa

ICARDA - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

ICRAF - World Agroforestry Centre

ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

ICUC - International Centre for Underutilized Crops

IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute

IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute

IRRI - International Rice Research Institute

IWMI - International Water Management Institute

WorldFish Center

SGRP Work

The CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) is a mechanism for collective action that impacts on the work of individual Centres, on the CGIAR System as a whole, and beyond. Its outputs can be classified as below into five thematic areas:

These outputs provide valuable momentum and quality to the genetic resources activities of the Centres and of other practitioners.
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SGRP Governance

ICWG-GR, November 2008 (photo: Nicole Demers)SGRP is guided by a steering committee, the Inter-Centre Working Group on Genetic Resources (ICWG-GR), which is composed of representatives from each of the Centres, from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and from the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The Committee sets the strategy and priorities for SGRP.

Resourcing SGRP

SGRP's activities are supported by direct donor contributions for coordination functions and specific research and development initiatives, supplemented by funding from individual Centre budgets and in-kind contributions of Centre staff time. Read more here.