On whole world, there are many organisations which are engaged in the discovering, conserving and breeding endangered variations of plant seeds and useful animals.
They manage not only rare agricultural ressources, but also important knowledge and practical experiences.
So it would made sense for the "knowledge project" to look after possibilities to cooperate!
This topic may be considered as a link survey to which everybody is invited to add organisations he know:
http://www.saveourseeds.org/en.html
http://www.dreschflegel-verein.de/aufgaben-ziele
https://www.arche-noah.at/
http://www.g-e-h.de/index.php