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Crop Conservation Activities Database

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Increasing farmers' and breeders' access to conserved diversity of yam, pearl millet, sorghum, and cowpea in Nigeria

This project involved the collection of diversity in geographical gaps. These accessions were characterised morphologically and genotyped when possible. Field days were organised to allow farmers to…

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting, and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives

This project produced a portfolio of plants that contains a list of characteristics required for adapting the world’s most important food crops to climate change. It was produced in a form that plant…

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting, and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives

This project created a dynamic taxon database of the crop wild relatives of major crops, compiled and made available ecogeographic datasets, and prepared a taxonomic identification aid as part of the…

Identifying CWR gaps for 80 genepools conserved ex situ within the “Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting, and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives” Project

This project identified CWR gaps for 80 genepools of priority crops conserved ex situ. This was done through various methods, including contacting genebank and herbaria directors and data managers…

VIR database updates and information systems improvement

This project complemented regeneration activities at the VIR in an upgrade to the organization's documentation capacity through the provision of hardware and genebank management software and…

Increasing farmers' access to good yam Cossette varieties resistant to storage insects in Northwest of Benin

In response to farmers’ demands of cossette varieties resistant to drought and with good storage qualities, the Laboratoire d’Agrobiodiversité et Amélioration des Plantes Tropicales (LAPPT) of the…

Plan and partnership for managing and sustaining CGIAR-held Collections

This funding began a long-term relationship between the Crop Trust and ICARDA wherein the Trust approved a master plan of ICARDA and assured funding for its activities.

Consultation Meeting on Priorities and Plans for Increasing Access by Breeding Programmes to Diversity for Yam, Pearl Millet, Sorghum and Cowpea in Ghana

The funding for this project supported a meeting between between Ghanaian scientists and scientists from CGIAR Centres, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and FAO-GIPB. The meeting sought increase…

Consultation Meeting on Priorities and Plans for Increasing Access by Breeding Programmes and Farmers to Diversity for Yam, Pearl Millet, Sorghum and Cowpea in Mali

The funding for this project supported a meeting between between Malian scientists and scientists from CGIAR Centres, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and FAO-GIPB. The meeting sought increase…

Germplasm collection and ex situ conservation of selected grass and legume crop species in Brazil

This project with the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária in Brazil involved the collection of germplasm and ex situ conservation of selected grass and legume crop species.

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