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About SGRP: Working together for over two decades

The SGRP is the culmination of a long-standing collaborative partnership among CGIAR Centre scientists and technicians involving sharing of know-how and joint action to address common research problems. The focus of the collaboration has always been the CGIAR Centre genebanks’ plant genetic resources collections and the challenges surrounding their management.  

About SGRP: Collective action and a common voice for conservation

SGRP provides the CGIAR with a flexible means of working in the genetic resources arena. At the broadest, SGRP serves as an umbrella and communication mechanism for the CGIAR’s range of genetic resources activities. Thereby, the Centres, whilst pursuing their individual mandates with their own funding, contribute to a coordinated agenda.
 

About SGRP: Research that matters

The genebank management work of the Centres ensures that the in-trust collections are healthy and readily available for use by plant breeders and farmers. Moreover, this work helps set standards for the world, representing a weighty responsibility to achieve excellence. Through SGRP, the CGIAR Centres share their expertise and experiences on all aspects of biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of plant, animal, and aquatic genetic resources.

About SGRP: Strength through collaboration

The collaboration achieved through SGRP makes the CGIAR system stronger. The in-trust collections are a global public good of immeasurable importance. In addition to these tangible public goods, inter-Centre cooperation and collaboration on genetic resources generate parallel global public goods in the form of knowledge.