The GCP Vision:
A future where plant breeders have the tools to breed crops in marginal environments with greater efficiency and accuracy for the benefit of the resource-poor farmers and their families.

The GCP Mission:
Using genetic diversity and advanced plant science to improve crops for greater food security in the developing world.

GCP Objectives:
In line with its mission, by 2013 Generation is expected to have contributed to the following objectives:

  • Provide access to and promote the use of genetic diversity in plant improvement programmes.
  • Develop a public platform of genetic and genomic resources and tools, and support a global community that can use them.
  • Generate and apply knowledge across crops, and demonstrate the potential of comparative genomics to impact plant improvement programmes.
  • Use genetic diversity and advanced science to develop products for plant breeding programmes to improve the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers in marginal, drought-prone environments.