This is a presentation for use in Japan on the context of the Crop Trust in the international realm as well as the Japanese national system in context with the international system on the conservation and use of crop diversity.

1. International Fund for
Agricultural
Development (IFAD)
World Food Programme
(WFP)
Food and Agriculture
Organization
of the UN (FA0)
CONVENTION ON
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY,
1993 (CBD)
INTL. TREATY ON PLANT
GENETIC RESOURCES FOR
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE,
2004 (ITPGRFA)
Two ITPGRFA funding elements:
• In situ crop
conservation
& use
• Project
funding
• Grants for
farmers in
developing
countries
• Annual
financial
calls; donor
grant
funding
• Ex situ crop
conservation
& use
• Endowment
Fund
• Long-term
grants for
crop gene
banks
• One-time
financial
call; donor
grants or
long-term
loans
CGIAR Global Research
Partnership
Access &
Benefit
Sharing
Fund (ABS)
Global
Crop
Diversity
Trust
(GCDT)
15 Research Centers
of which 11 Centers operate
crop gene banks:
Crop Gene Bank,
financed by GCDT
Agricultural research
activities,
financed by CGIAR
Fund
The Crop Trust in the International
Agricultural Framework

2. 2014 2018
USD 170
million
2016
USD 850
million
USD 500
million
Crop Diversity Fund
Crop accessions in Japan’s national system: 302.235 accessions
Total crop accessions in all the world’s genebanks: 7,4 million accessions
Japan’s National
System in Context
From 2004-2013, Japan received 7,451 accessions from the
International Collections supported by the Crop Trust.