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Revision as of 14:20, 28 June 2009

The Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) says its mission is "to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide".[1]

However, among its funders are genetic modification (GM) corporations Syngenta and DuPont, which depend on the privatization and patenting of genes for profit (see Funding, below).

Activities

One of the GCDT's programmes is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault or Doomsday Vault, as the media have nicknamed it. This is a vast storage unit in Northern Norway for the world's germplasm (seeds) that GCDT claims "will be the ultimate safety net for the world’s most important natural resource".[2]

Affiliations

  • Bioversity International: The Global Crop Diversity Trust is listed among the Top 20 donors to Bioversity International in BI's Annual Report 2008.[3]

People

Board

As at June 2009:[4]

Funding

According to the GCDT website, its donors as of June 2009 are the following governments, foundations and corporations:[5]

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Resources

Notes

  1. Our mission, Global Crop Diversity Trust website, accessed June 27 2009
  2. Arctic Seed Vault, GCDT website, accessed 27 June 2009
  3. Bioversity International Annual Report 2008, p. 27, accessed 27 June 2009
  4. http://www.croptrust.org/main/board.php?itemid=70 Board], GCDT website, accessed June 27 2009
  5. Donors, GCDT website, accessed June 27 2009