Bridging agriculture and environment: Southern African crop-wild-relative regional network
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £477,004
WHERE Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania
Summary
This project will support food security and poverty reduction in Southern Africa improving the management of crop-wild relatives. Valuable traits within crop wild relatives (CWR) are needed to enhance present and future food security for 130 million poor people in southern Africa. Yet CWR are poorly conserved, are threatened, barely accessible to breeders, and generate few benefits for farmers. The project will establish strategic partnerships/networks of protected areas for CWR conservation and use; design mechanisms to enhance the benefits farmers from conserving CWR; increase access to germplasm, and build gendered capacity, underpinning southern-African food security and poverty reduction.
University of Birmingham - BioSci, Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI), Malawi Plant Genetic Resources Centre (MPGRC), National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC), Southern African Developing Community (SADC) Plant Genetic Resources Centre (SPGRC), Lusaka, Zambia.
Regions
Sub-Saharan Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
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