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CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

ACTIVE PROJECT

Gene bank funding

Gene bank funding

Duration: January 2022 - December 2024

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Description

This project is focusing on the essential operations of the ICRAF-CIFOR Tree Genetic Resources Unit (GRU) that is seed conservation, characterization, distribution, and data management aspects of the seed gene bank. During this time, a long-term strategy for the GRU’s work is developed, and fundraising is carried out, with the objective of in due course putting in place a Long-term Partnership Agreement between the Crop Trust and ICRAF-CIFOR to guarantee in-perpetuity support for specified ex situ tree diversity conservation activities from the Crop Trust endowment fund.

Alice Muchugi

Principal Investigator

Details

Project locations

Kenya, Mali, Niger, Cameroon, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Peru, Kazakhstan

Project duration

January 2022 - December 2024
(3 years)

Thematic areas

  • Theme 1: Trees and Forest Genetic Resources & Biodiversity (TREES)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

  • Zero hunger
  • Life on land

Transformative Partnership Platforms (TPP)

  • Transforming the quality of tree planting (TQTP): a platform for ensuring restoration and agroforestry success through partnership with pantropical planters

Flagship Products (FP)

  • Tree-Breed-Net (A digital platform)

Project team

Prasad Hendre

AOCC Laboratory Scientist-Trees and Genetic Resource Unit (GRU) Manager (Interim)

Alice Muchugi

Theme Leader Biodiversity Trees and Genetic Resources

Funders