Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research | Integrated crop production of bananas to manage wilt diseases for improved livelihoods in Indonesia and Australia |
Alliance of the CGIAR Centres | Advisory Service on Intellectual Property |
Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa | - Enhanced management of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt for sustainable banana productivity in East and Central Africa
- Sustainable Management of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt in Banana Cropping Systems in East and Central Africa
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Austria | |
Belgium | |
Brazil | - Establishment of the International Coconut Genebank for South America and the Caribbean
- Amazon Initiative research activities
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Collective Action and Property Rights Initiative | Agrobiodiversity conservation service and implications for collective action and property rights |
Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza | Impact of value chain approaches on poverty: the introduction of a new plantain variety in the Dominican Republic |
Common Fund for Commodities | |
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research | Using native cacao to reduce poverty and conservation of globally important biodiversity in Northern Ecuador |
China | Strengthening the research capacity on agricultural biodiversity and updating facilities and related projects at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences-Bioversity Centre of Excellence for Agrobiodiversity |
Christensen Fund | - A voice for Vavilov: Using modern means of communication to address cultural and agricultural biodiversity and promote global conversation
- Funding of two round table discussions related to agrobiodiversity at La Settimana della Biodiversità, a week-long celebration of biodiversity in Rome as part of the international year of biodiversity
Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty - Climate Change & Indigenous Communities: Strengthening Adaptability, Resilience and Innovation
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Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical | CGIAR Challenge Program "Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security" - Adaptation and Mitigation Knowledge Network |
Canadian International Development Agency | Global Plan of Action (GPA) for plant genetic resources for food and agriculture implementation in selected Sub-Saharan Africa countries
Understanding and managing the genetic diversity of Noug - (Guizotia abyssinica) for its improvement |
Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research's Systemwide Genetic Resources Program Knowledge Bank Portal - Technical support for uploading the information materials related to crop best practices including procedures and guidelines for the safe movement of germplasm |
Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement | Structural, functional and comparative annotation platform dedicated to plants' and their bioaggressors' genomes |
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation | |
European Commission | - Conserving and promoting the use of resources of commodity crops
- Conservation and sustainable use of the forest and other wild species
- Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe
- Building human and institutional capacity for enhancing the conservation and use of neglected and underutilized species of crops in West Africa, and Eastern and Southern Africa
- Enabling Collective Action on Genetic Resources across the CGIAR Centres:
- Support for the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP)
- Forest ecosystem genomics research: Supporting Transatlantic Cooperation
Establishment of a European Information System on Forest Genetic Resources (EUFGIS) - Evoltree network of excellence
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European Countries | |
Food and Agriculture Organisation | - Expert Consultation: Planning and execution of an e-learning course on pre-breeding [7]
- Participation in the advocacy platform for the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD ) initiative
- Support of the development of a global information system on germplasm
- Capacity building programme on the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and its Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing
- Expert Consultation on Climate Change and Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
- Addressing the role of biodiversity for food and agriculture in feeding the world and in light of global changes
- Organization of the Expert Consultation and Production of 'Draft Updated Genebank Standards'
- Support for regional workshops on the preparation of Country Reports for the State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources
- Exploring the role of biodiversity for food and agriculture and sustainable agricultural intensification in feeding the world and in light of global changes
- Africa Consultation for the Update of the Global Plan of Action on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant genetic Reources for Food and Agriculture
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Finland | Associate Expert working on Forestry in the Asia Pacific region |
Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology | Improving the quality of life in rural communities in four Latin American and Caribbean countries through technological innovations in production, processing and marketing |
Gates Foundation | - Grant to improve small farmers’ access to information to enhance productivity in Africa
- The effects of market integration on the nutritional contributions of traditional foods to the wellbeing of the rural poor in Africa
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Global Crop Diversity Trust | - Regeneration and safe duplication of regionally prioritized crop collections
- Regeneration of accessions in the international coconut genebank for Africa and the Indian Ocean
Award Scheme for Enhancing the Value of Crop Diversity: - Assessment of East African highland banana and plantain cultivars in Asia for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense disease
- Validation of a coconut embryo culture protocol for the international exchange of germplasm
- Development of a Global Strategy for the Ex Situ Conservation of pearl millet and finger millet and their Wild Relatives
- Facilitating access to phenotypic data on the international in-trust collection of wheat and maize
- The long-term funding of Ex Situ collections of germplasm held by Bioversity International
- Conserving banana diversity for use in perpetuity
- Development & refinement of cryopreservation protocols for the long-term conservation of vegetatively-propogated crops
- Global system information exchange for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
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Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation | Contribution towards the Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship Fund [8]. The fund aims to encourage the conservation and use of plant genetic resources by awarding Fellowships to developing country scientists |
German Development Cooperation | - Assessing the contribution of diversified Musa genetic resources to poverty reduction, environmental sustainability and gender equality in rural communities
- Publication of "Gene flow between Crops and their Wild Relatives in Centres of Crop Origin and Diversity"
- Unraveling the potential of neglected crop diversity for high-value product differentiation and income generation to benefit poor farmers: The case of chili pepper in its centre of origin
- Improving small farm production and marketing of bananas under trees: Resource partitioning, living soils, cultivar choice and marketing strategies
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International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas | Musa crop register activity |
International Development Research Center | Managing agriculture for better nutrition and health, improved livelihoods and more sustainable production system in Sub-Saharan Africa |
International Fund for Agricultural Development | - Programme for strengthening the income opportunities and nutritional security of the rural poor through neglected and underutilized species
- Programme for Impact Evaluation Approaches for Agricultural Research
- La Settimana della Biodiversità: raising awareness of the value of the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity
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International Fund for Agricultural Research | - 2010 Fellowship include Understanding Pratylenchus goodeyi variability for improving banana nematode management in east African highlands
- the Development of molecular assays for tracing the wild ancestors of edible bananas and plantains in Thailand
- Addressing drought and stem rust resistance of Ethiopian tetraploid Wheat Landrace Populations using phonotypical Markers
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International Rice Research Institute | Reducing and managing the loss of genetic integrity of conserved germplasm |
Italy | Institutional Learning and Change
2010 - Campaign for the International year of Biodiversity |
Japan | Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) Fellowships: - Characterization and Evaluation of the genetic diversity of neglected and underutilized crops in Malaysia
- Assessment of farmers' agrobiodiversity management in Kenya: the cropping strategy in Kitui district in Eastern Kenya
- Assessment of farmers' agrobiodiversity management in Kenya: the cropping strategy in Kitui district in Eastern Kenya
- Community plant genetic resources use and conservation in East Africa
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Korea, Republic of | Operational fund for a Korean scientist to document useful plant genetic resources in Asia-Pacific-Oceania region |
Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development | Promoting new rice and legume varieties from client-oriented breeding |
Luxembourg | Conservation, characterization and evaluation for nutrition and health of vegetative propagated crop collections at the Vavilov Institute |
Malaysia | - Enhancing sustainable forest management and conservation strategies through genetic level research using Shorea leprosula and S. Parvifolia as model species
- Farmers’ Documentation of Traditional Knowledge of Rare Tropical Fruit Species Diversity for Enhanced Use in Malaysia
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McKnight Foundation | - Assessing the Success of On-Farm Conservation Projects in Delivering Conservation and Livelihood Outcomes
- Strengthening partnerships along value chains to manage Xanthomonas wilt of bananas in East and Horn of Africa
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Multi-Donors to "Cocoa of Excellence" [4] | - Barry Callebaut
- Belcolade
- MARs
- World Cocoa Foundation
- Cocoa of Excellence Private Sector Co-Financing
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Netherlands | The Govermenet of the Netherlands provides us with Associate Experts to work in the following areas: - Economic and social aspects of agrobiodiversity
- Assessing the potential contribution of banana-based production systems to improve nutrition
- Communicating agro-biodiversity science for problem-based learning
- Platform for agricultural biodiversity research
- Nutrition in West Africa
- Socio-economics
- Strengthening Enterprise and Value Chains to Improve the Livelihoods of Small-scale Banana Farmers in Eastern and Central Africa
- Underutilized Crop Species
- Conservation and sustainable use of cultivated and wild tropical fruit diversity: promoting sustainable livelihoods, food security and ecosystem health
- Innovating for sustainable poverty reduction
Intellectual Property Advisory Service to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
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Nordgen | PhD Project to improve crop food production through the development of novel IT tools to mine the global genebank collections for valuable ecological traits |
New Zealand AID | Pacific agricultural plant genetic resources network (Phase II) |
Peru | - Development of Andean grain crops with potential to ensuring people's nutrition and poverty alleviation
- Enhancing the competitiveness of Peruvian cocoa via the identification and commercialisation of fine and diverse flavour quality
- Policies that promote the use of Peruvian agro-biodiversity and local technological innovation, with a base in genetic resources, to overcome poverty, malnutrition and food insecurity in Peru
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Pioneer | Contribution towards the Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship Fund. [8] The fund aims to encourage the conservation and use of plant genetic resources by awarding Fellowships to developing country scientists |
Portugal | Conservation strategies and the role of forest genetic resources in Mozambique |
SDC | - Strengthening the scientific basis of In Situ conservation of agricultural biodiversity (Phase V)
- In Situ Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity in Agriculture and Wild Ecosystems manual
- CGIAR System-wide efforts to develop technical inputs to the governing body of the International Treaty concerning the sustainable use of Plant Genetic Resources under Article 6 of the Treaty
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SIDA | Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa - focusing on capacity building, research and the development of Plant Genetic Resources support services |
Spain | - Strengthening regional collaboration in conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
- Institutional strengthening for sustainable resource use in the Amazon region
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Syngenta
| Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services programme [9] |
Uganda | Novel approaches to the improvement of banana production in Eastern Africa - the application of biotechnological methodologies |
UK Fundraising Initiative | Matching seeds for needs: Innovative research using germplasm variation for adapting to climate change and improving the livelihoods of poor farmers in Papua New Guinea (Phase 1) |
United Nations Environment Programme-Global Environment Fund | - In situ conservation of crop wild relatives through enhanced information management and field application
- Conservation and use of crop genetic diversity to control pests and diseases
- Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use for Improved Human Nutrition and Wellbeing
- Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba: Bridging Managed and Natural Landscapes
- Small Scale Funding Agreement for PPG-Sri Lanka
- In situ conservation of agricultural biodiversity (horticultural crops and wild fruit species) in Central Asia
- Conservation and Sustainable Use of Cultivated and Wild Tropical Fruit Diversity: Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods, Food Security and Ecosystem Services
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USDA | - Collaboration with Bioversity International to support research and conservation of crop genetic resources
- Support to Cacaonet and ingenic activities
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Wageningen University | - Feasibility study for the pesticide reduction plan for banana
- Global study for community empowerment for in situ conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
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West African Health Organisation | Compilation of Food Composition Data |
World Bank | - Support to the CGIAR genetic resources policy committee
- Advisory Services on Intellectual Property
- International Year of Biodiversity - Diversity for Life Campaign Activities in Kenya
- Development marketplace - Adaptation to climate change: Innovative tools to match seeds to the needs of women farmers
- Collective action for the rehabilitation of global public goods in the CGIAR genetic resources system - (Phase II)
- Development marketplace - Modern genomics methods benefiting small farmers' value chain
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CGIAR Challenge Program "Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security" (CCAFS) | Establishment of a farmer-based experimentation network in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) region: Pilot project for on-farm participatory climate change adaptation and visualization |
CGIAR Generation Challenge Program | - Construction of a musa genome frame-map and connection with the rice sequence
- Establishing a Genetic Resource Support Service for the plant breeding community
- Enhancement and implementation of the Crop Ontology for data integration and data interoperability
- Managing the Generation Challenge Programme in a Post-International Treaty World
- Development of data standards and community of practice enabling the capture of and access to quality data sets of the Challenge Programme
- Development of an integrated informatics platform
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Harvest Plus - Challenge Program | Addressing micronutrient deficiencies in Sub-Saharan African through Musa-based foods |
Sub-Saharan Africa - Challenge Program | Improving human nutrition and income through integrated agricultural research on production and marketing of vegetables in Malawi and Mozambique |
