The Generation Challenge Programme unites three sets of partners, who – together – make up the GCP Consortium members. The Consortium comprises nine CGIAR centres and 13 non-CGIAR institutes (including four provisional members).
The Consortium was formed to advance the goal of, provide support for, participate in, and encourage expanded support for and participation in the Generation Challenge Programme. This collaborative approach allows GCP partners to tap into a significantly larger collective pool of scientific expertise, funding, information and other resources. The arrangement also allows GCP to conduct research on genetic questions that cut across crop species and thereby apply innovations in one area or commodity to other areas. Investigating traits in one species or plant type may provide vital clues to unlocking similar traits in others.
Each Consortium member appoints a representative to the Consortium Committee (CC). Also, GCP’s IP Helpdesk is tailored to provide an understanding of the GCP Consortium Agreement, thereby facilitating its implementation. The Helpdesk also includes background information on the Consortium Agreement.
Full members
1. Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), Cotonou, Benin
2. African Centre for Gene Technologies (ACGT, incorporating ARC, CSIR, UoJ, UoP and UoW), Pretoria, South Africa
3. Agropolis (incorporating CIRAD, IRD and INRA), Montpellier, France
4. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy
5. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT; International Center for Tropical Agriculture), Cali, Colombia
6. Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP; International Potato Center), Lima, Peru
7. Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT; The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), Texcoco, Mexico
8. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China
9. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
10. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (EMBRAPA; Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), Brasilia, Brazil
11. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India
12. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria
13. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India
14. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria
15. International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, The Philippines
16. John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich, UK
17. National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Tsukuba, Japan
18. Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Provisional members
19. Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Irapuato, Mexico
20. Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), Rabat, Morocco
21. Istituto Agronomico per l'Oltremare (IAO), Florence, Italy
22. National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Bangkok, Thailand