ABSTRACT
Major international collections of cassava are held at CIAT and IITA, two institutes of the CGIAR. CIAT in Colombia has the most extensive cassava collection. It holds more than 6000 cassava accessions with the great majority of these coming from South America including around 2400 from Colombia and 1500 from Brazil (https://isa.ciat.cgiar.org/ urg/cassavacollection.do). IITA conserves over 4000 accessions of the crop mainly from countries of sub-Saharan Africa. More than 90% of this collection originates in West Africa (https://my.iita.org/accession2). The cassava collection at EMBRAPA-Brazil is about 4000 accessions. Other important genebanks are those in CTCRI-India, INIA-Peru, NRCRINigeria, IAN-Paraguay, SRCV-Benin, NARO-Uganda, D.R. Congo and PGRC/CRI-Ghana.
