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CGIAR Initiative on Genebanks
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Published on
03.12.24
Digital sequence information (DSI) is changing the way genetic resources are used in agricultural research and development. DSI can contribute to the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and to fair and equitable benefit-sharing.
CGIAR is using DSI to create benefits for farmer and consumers in developing countries. For example, CGIAR genebanks use DSI to assess the genetic diversity of collections and to help identify materials that are well-adapted to different conditions. CGIAR participates actively in international discussions on the use of DSI and is providing technical assistance to national partners.
This page brings together publications and presentations by CGIAR scientists on both technical and policy aspects relating to the use of DSI. We hope they will be useful to our partners.
CGIAR submissions to international fora
Generation, use and sharing of digital sequence information in crop improvement.
Submission to the Twelfth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System: Policy Brief (2024)
Technical assistance to strengthen national agricultural research organizations’ capacity to use digital sequence information. A submission from CGIAR.
Submission to the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (2023)
Issues for further consideration concerning digital sequence information.
Submission from CGIAR to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Open-Ended Working Group on Benefit-Sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources (2023)
Digital sequence information is changing the way genetic resources are used in agricultural research and development: implications for new benefit-sharing norms
A discussion paper from CGIAR for consideration by delegates to the 15th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (2022)
Presentations and side events at international negotiating meetings
Twelfth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System, September 2024
Generation, Use and Sharing of Digital Sequence Information in Crop Improvement
2nd meeting of Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, August 2024
How to ‘future proof’ benefit-sharing from the use of DSI in agricultural research and development
Plenary Session of Plant Treaty’s Working Group to Enhance the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing, April 2024
Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, former head of the International Rice Genebank (IRRI)
CGIAR Centers’ practices in the generation, deposit, sharing and use of DSI for research & breeding *
* voice over recorded after the event, incorporating answers to questions raised by negotiators during the session.
Side event at the FAO’s 11th ITWG-PGRFA meeting
‘Using DSI to improve accession management by CGIAR genebanks’
Use of DSI for analyzing genebank collections and making conservation-related devisions
Carolina Sansaloni, CIMMYT
Using DSI to analyze structure, redundancies and gaps in ex situ crop collections
Monica Carvajal-Yepes, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
Using DSI to compare international cassava collections hosted by CIAT and IITA
Mathieu Rouard, Alliance Bioversity and CIAT
Managing genotyping data in genebanks
Side event at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP 15 meeting
‘DSI is changing the way genetic resources are used in agricultural research and development. Implications for new benefit-sharing norms’
Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, former head of the International Rice Genebank (IRRI)
Setting the scene: how DSI is changing how we conserve and use genetic resources *
Carolina Sansaloni, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center – CIMMYT
Using DSI to analyze structure, redundancies and gaps in ex situ crop collections
Sarah Hearne, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center – CIMMYT
Using DSI to interrogate crop genetic diversity for climate change adaptation *
Chiedozie Egesi, IITA and NextGen Cassava Partners
Using DSI for genomic selection in cassava breeding
Michael Halewood, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, CGIAR Genebank Initiative
DSI: Implications for new benefit-sharing norms
Christian Keambou Tiambo – International Livestock Research Institute
Using DSI for Livestock Conservation and Improvement
* presentations also shared with the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Ad-hoc Open ended Working Group on the Functioning of the Multilateral System – informal consultative process on DSI and other key issues (2023).
Webinars
Webinar for CGIAR staff – December 2024
CBD COP16’s decision re digital sequence information & benefit-sharing
CGIAR Environment and Biodiversity Platform Webinar – October 2024
New benefit sharing rules for Digital Sequence Information under the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Plant Treaty: Ensuring Mutual Supportiveness
Webinar for CGIAR scientists – May 2024
Hot off the press! An update on most recent negotiations to improve the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing
Webinar for CGIAR scientists – September 2023
Digital Sequence Information – where are we now?
Journal Articles, Blog Posts and Briefs
Harmonize rules for digital sequence information benefit-sharing across UN frameworks (2024)
Digital Sequence Information (DSI) data governance practices to support benefit-sharing and science (2024)
Colombia could broker historic global agreement to share genetic diversity’s digital wealth (2024)
New rules for sharing benefits from the use of digital sequence information (2024)
New benefit-sharing principles for digital sequence information (2023)
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