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New Policy Brief Alert: Crop Wild Relatives in the South African Development Community
New Policy Brief Alert: Published under Darwin Initiative project: Crop Wild Relatives in the South African Development Community by Dulloo et al.,...
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New Descriptors Alert: Descriptors for Crop Wild Relatives conserved in situ (CWRI v.1)
New Descriptors Alert: Published under International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture by Alercia et al., on February 2021 ...
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New Report Alert: Crop wild relative network showcases – analysis and best practices
New Report Alert: Published under Farmers' Pride project by Álvarez-Muñiz et al., on 08 March 2021 Farmers’ Pride project has come up with a...
Events
Committee on World Food Security 48th Special Session 4 June, 12:45 -14:15 CET (Side-Event 10)
IPBES 8: Eighth Plenary Session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on 14-24 June 2021, online.
UPDATE: Farmer's Pride Online Conference: Ensuring diversity for food and agriculture, plant genetic resources, in nature and on farm 28 June to 01 July 2021
2021 UN Food Systems Pre-Summit on 19-21 July 2021 in Rome, Italy
UPDATE: IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France, 03-11 September 2021
COP15: Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on 11-24 October 2021, in Kunming, China.
26th UN Climate Change Conference on 1-12 November 2021, in Glasgow, UK.
2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress on 15-18 November 2021 in Rome, Italy and virtual
The Crop Wild Relatives Global Portal was created within the framework of the UNEP-GEF supported project “In situ conservation of crop wild relatives through enhanced information management and field application” (2004-2010). The portal further expanded under the EU-ACP funded project “In situ conservation and use of crop wild relatives in three ACP countries of the SADC region” (2014-2016) and is now being maintained and updated under the Darwin Initiative funded project “Bridging agriculture and environment: Southern Africa crop wild relative regional network” (2019-2022).