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New SMTA
As
from 1 January 2007, Centres are using the
Standard Material Transfer Agreement (SMTA) adopted
by the Governing Body of the Treaty at its First
Session in June 2006 for transfers of PGRFA of crops
and forages listed in Annex 1 of the International
Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture. The SMTA will replace, for Annex 1
material, the Material Transfer Agreement currently
in use by the Centres.
SMTA English –
PDF -
Word
SMTA French –
PDF -
Word
SMTA Spanish –
PDF -
Word
SMTA Arabic –
PDF -
Word
SMTA Chinese –
PDF -
Word
SMTA Russian –
PDF -
Word
Find out more about
the
Standard
Material Transfer Agreement.
Find out more about the
International Treaty
on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
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CGIAR genebank community awarded 2006 CGIAR
"Science Award for Outstanding Partnership"
The CGIAR genebank community was
awarded the 2006 CGIAR "Science
Award for Outstanding Partnership".
Jane Toll, Coordinator of the System-wide Genetic
Resources Programme (SGRP), received the Outstanding
Partnership Award on behalf of the 11 CGIAR genebanks*, the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI),
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO)
and the SGRP Secretariat. The award was conferred in
recognition of this community's efforts to conserve
and manange plant genetic resources collections as a
global public good. The ceremony took
place at the Annual General Meeting of the CGIAR in
Washington DC on Monday, 4 December 2006.
The Outstanding Partnership Award is shared by the
11 CGIAR Centres* that maintain collections of
plant genetic resources in trust for the world
community, by IFPRI for its economics contribution
and FAO for its contribution in providing crucial
policy inputs and important links to countries.
Together, the Centre genebanks contain
more than 650,000 accessions of crop, forest and
agroforestry species and can be thought of as an
insurance policy for the future of food security.
Keeping the samples in good condition, gathering
information about the accessions, and making the
material and information about it freely available
has required close cooperation and coordination
among all the staff involved. SGRP helps the Centres
to work together on these matters.
Jane Toll said the award “acknowledges the efforts
-- past and present -- of the whole group of
technicians, researchers, managers and everyone
involved in maintaining the collections to the
highest possible standards and making them available
to the breeding programmes of the CGIAR Centres and
to the whole world.”
Find out more about the
in-trust collections.
Find out more
about SGRP and
our work.
See
photos (click on image for larger version):
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SGRP Steering Committee
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2006 CGIAR Award Recipients
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Jane Toll, SGRP Coordinator
receiving ‘Outstanding Partnership
Award’
on behalf of
the CGIAR genebank community
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2006 CGIAR Award for
Outstanding Partnership
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Details of all the Science Awards are available from
the CGIAR
here.
*11 CGIAR Centres with
genebanks:
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New publications
SGRP. 2007.
Annual Report 2006 of the CGIAR System-wide Genetic
Resources Programme. Bioversity International, Rome,
Italy. Download
in PDF (970KB)
SGRP. 2007. A de facto certificate of source:
the Standard Material Transfer Agreement under the
International Treaty. System-wide Genetic Resources
Programme (SGRP), Rome, Italy.
Download in PDF (149KB)
SGRP.
2006. Upgrading the CGIAR Genebanks – Securing
Global Public Goods for today and Tomorrow.
Bioversity International, Rome, Italy. 4 pp.
Download in PDF (1.2MB)
SGRP.
2006. Building a global conservation system.
Bioversity International, Rome, Italy. 4 pp.
Download in PDF
(large file - 9MB)
CGIAR.
2006. Safeguarding the World’s Agricultural Legacy.
Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research, Washington DC, USA. September 2006. 12 pp.
Download in PDF (713KB)
CGIAR.
2006. Genebanks in the CGIAR: Bolstering World Food
Security [online]. Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research, Washington DC,
USA. November 2006.
http://www.cgiar.org/monthlystory/november2006.html
CGIAR.
2006. The CGIAR Genebanks - Seeds for Life [online].
Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research, Washington DC, USA. July/August 2006.
http://www.cgiar.org/monthlystory/july2006.html
SGRP. 2006. Annual Report
2004/2005 of the CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources
Programme. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy.
Download in
PDF (1.4MB)
Gibson
J, Gamage S, Hanotte O, et al. 2006. Options
and Strategies for the Conservation of Farm Animal
Genetic Resources: Report of an International
Workshop (7-10 November 2005, Montpellier, France).
CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP)/Bioversity
International, Rome, Italy. 53 pp. -
Download in
PDF (1.1MB)
SGRP. 2006. Options and Strategies for the Conservation of Farm
Animal Genetic Resources: Report of an International
Workshop and Presented Papers (7-10 November 2005,
Montpellier, France) [CD-ROM]. CGIAR System-wide
Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP)/Bioversity
International, Rome, Italy.
Download in PDF
(890KB)
SGRP and FAO, 2006. Flier - Options and Strategies
for the Conservation of Farm Animal Genetic
Resources. Outcomes of a workshop held 7-10 November
2005, AGROPOLIS, Montpellier, France.
Download in PDF
(410KB)
Platform for Agrobiodiversity
Research. 2006. Platform for Agrobiodiversity
Research. Bioversity International and the CGIAR
System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP),
Rome, Italy. 6 pp.
Download in PDF
(367KB)
Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research. 2006.
Summary Report of the First International
Stakeholder Meeting, Rome, Italy, 29-31 May 2006.
Bioversity International and the CGIAR System-wide
Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP), Rome, Italy. 12
pp.
Download in PDF
(457KB)
IFPRI, ILRI and IPGRI for SGRP. 2005.
ECOGENLIT: economics literature on crop and
livestock genetic resources (CD ROM).
Washington, DC: Published for the CGIAR
System-wide-Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) by
the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI),
the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI),
and the International Plant Genetic Resources
Institute (IPGRI). To access ECOGENLIT,
click here.
See the
full list of publications.
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