The Trust’s central objective is to use the proceeds of its endowment to provide in-perpetuity, secure funding to ensure the long-term maintenance and availability of crop collections of global significance.
The Trust currently provides in-perpetuity support to the following crop collections held at international genebanks.
- Edible Aroids - Fiji (SPC)
- Banana and Plantain - Belgium (Bioversity International)
- Barley - Syria (ICARDA)
- Bean - Colombia (CIAT)
- Cassava - Colombia (CIAT)
- Cassava - Nigeria (IITA)
- Chickpea - India (ICRISAT)
- Faba bean - Syria (ICARDA)
- Forages - Syria (ICARDA)
- Forages - Ehtiopia (ILRI)
- Grass pea - Syria (ICARDA)
- Lentil - Syria (ICARDA)
- Maize - Mexico (CIMMYT)
- Pearl millet - India (ICRISAT)
- Rice - Philippines (IRRI)
- Sorghum - India (ICRISAT)
- Sweet Potato - Peru (CIP)
- Wheat - Mexico (CIMMYT)
- Yam - Fiji (SPC)
- Yam - Nigeria (IITA)
Genebank Impact
“By the end of the 1990s, the wide adoption of improved cassava with a 50% advantage over the average yields of traditional varieties had made possible the additional production of 10 million tons of fresh roots per year — enough to provide 14 million people with 2,200 kilocalories per day.”
The CGIAR at 40 and Beyond: Impacts that Matter for the Poor and the Planet