Crop Conservation Strategies
Global Crop Conservation Strategies
Since 2007 the Crop Trust has facilitated the development of global crop conservation strategies to identify priority collections and actions to strengthen the conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA), and to ensure that conservation activities and priorities are better coordinated among stakeholders (including genebanks and their users) worldwide.
Crop Strategy: Apple (18.21 MB)
Crop Strategy: Barley (0.98 MB)
Crop Strategy: Beans (1.69 MB)
Crop Strategy: Brassica (high res) (17.91 MB)
Crop Strategy: Brassica (low res) (1.43 MB)
Crop Strategy: Breadfruit (763 kB)
Crop Strategy: Cassava (3.50 MB)
Crop Strategy: Chickpea (1.17 MB)
Crop Strategy: Citrus (high res) (28 MB)
Crop Strategy: Citrus (low res) (2.36 MB)
Crop Strategy: Coconut (2008) (1.56 MB)
Crop Strategy: Coconut (2017) (10.79 MB)
Crop Strategy: Coffee (7.52 MB)
Crop Strategy: Cowpea (378 kB)
Crop Strategy: Curcurbits (lowres) (2.82 MB)
Crop Strategy: Edible Aroids (752 kB)
Crop Strategy: Eggplant (lowres) (1.57 MB)
Crop Strategy: Faba Bean (1.00 MB)
Crop Strategy: Finger Millet (2.37 MB)
Crop Strategy: Forages (2015) (759 kB)
Crop Strategy: Sunflower (lowres) (2.32 MB)
Crop Strategy: Tea (2.40 MB)
Crop Strategy: Grasspea (537 kB)
Crop Strategy: Lentil (917 kB)
Crop Strategy: Maize (2.75 MB)
Crop Strategy: Millets (highres) (30 MB)
Crop Strategy: Millets (lowres) (3.14 MB)
Crop Strategy: Banana (2007) (516 kB)
Crop Strategy: Banana (2016) (5.32 MB)
Crop Strategy: Oat (0.96 MB)
Crop Strategy: Peanut (lowres) (2.64 MB)
Crop Strategy: Peanut (highres) (23 MB)
Crop Strategy: Pearl Millet (5.40 MB)
Crop Strategy: Pea 2023 (lowres) (2.22 MB)
Crop Strategy: Potato (2007) (483 kB)
Crop Strategy: Rice (2.60 MB)
Crop Strategy: Sorghum (2007) (7.23 MB)
Crop Strategy: Sweetpotato (1.05 MB)
Crop Strategy: Temperate Forages (highres) (10.45 MB)
Crop Strategy: Vanilla (lowres) (1.88 MB)
Crop Strategy: Vanilla (highres) (26 MB)
Crop Strategy: Vigna (highres) (27 MB)
Crop Strategy: Vigna (lowres) (2.32 MB)
Crop Strategy: Wheat (818 kB)
Crop Strategy: Yam (2010) (1.18 MB)
Crop Strategy: Yam (2021) (6.12 MB)
Global Crop Conservation and Use Metrics
These concise reports provide an up-to-date overview of the global status of ex situ conservation of genetic resources of a crop and its wild relatives, including key metrics on:
- global statistics on crop production and availability in food supplies;
- the identity and composition of genebank collections;
- the Multilateral System (MLS) status of accessions in these collections;
- storage, regeneration, and safety duplication status;
- documentation, information systems, and research resources;
- germplasm distribution;
- varietal registrations and releases; and
- crop networks and partnerships.
Onions, Garlic and Leeks (2.28 MB)
Amaranth.pdf (4.76 MB)
Aroids.pdf (1.87 MB)
Baobab.pdf (7.07 MB)
Barley.pdf (2.83 MB)
Beans.pdf (0.91 MB)
Beets.pdf (3.90 MB)
Breadfruit.pdf (4.06 MB)
Carrot.pdf (3.52 MB)
Cassava.pdf (2.81 MB)
Chickpea.pdf (1.42 MB)
Cotton.pdf (2.43 MB)
Faba_Bean.pdf (3.60 MB)
Forages.pdf (4.58 MB)
Grasspea.pdf (1.64 MB)
Jute.pdf (4.90 MB)
Lentil.pdf (7.81 MB)
Lettuce.pdf (2.35 MB)
Maize.pdf (3.65 MB)
Oats.pdf (1.04 MB)
Okra.pdf (2.70 MB)
Pigeonpea.pdf (5.49 MB)
Rice.pdf (5.53 MB)
Sesame.pdf (2.32 MB)
Soybean.pdf (3.58 MB)
Strawberry.pdf (1.97 MB)
Sugarcane.pdf (3.26 MB)
Sweetpotato.pdf (3.63 MB)
Tomato.pdf (3.30 MB)
Turkey_Berry.pdf (1.91 MB)
Hemispheric Conservation Strategies
These eight regional conservation strategies, all of which produced between 2006 to 2008, were developed drawing upon a series of meetings of scientists and national program managers via regional networks to identify regional priorities.
Hemispheric Strategy: South, Southeast and East Asia (671 kB)
Hemispheric Strategy: Southern Africa (3.37 MB)
Hemispheric Strategy: the Pacific (1.11 MB)
Hemispheric Strategy: the Americas (802 kB)
Hemispheric Strategy: Eastern Africa (342 kB)
Hemispheric Strategy: Central Asia and the Caucasus (555 kB)