1. 10th November 2015, Pretoria, South Africa
In Situ conservation and use of crop wild relatives in three ACP countries of SADC region
National Strategic Action Plan for the conservation and sustainable use of crop wild relatives
Joana Magos Brehm, Shelagh Kell, Imke Thormann, Nigel Maxted and Ehsan Dulloo
South Africa national stakeholders’ workshop on the preparation of the National Strategic Action Plan for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Crop Wild Relatives
10th November 2015, Pretoria, South Africa

2. CONTENTS The CWR NSAP concept CWR NSAP documentation
Global policy context
Purpose
Elements
Implementation
Examples from other countries
CWR NSAP documentation
Allium altaicum Pallas (photo: Vojtech Holubec)

3. THE CWR NSAP CONCEPT: global policy context
CBD, ITPGRFA, Second GPA:
Underline the commitment of governments to ensuring that the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA continues to be a key element in global efforts to increase food security and nutrition, and to alleviate poverty
Highlight the need to develop and implement national strategies for PGRFA conservation and sustainable use
Joint notification of the CBD/ITPGRFA/CGRFA/Bioversity (3 August 2015) – ‘Strengthening the in situ conservation of PGRFA through incorporation of CWR under areas important for biodiversity in PA networks and other effective area-based conservation measures’ (

4. THE CWR NSAP CONCEPT: purpose
Raise awareness of the value of national CWR diversity for food and economic security, particularly for adapting crops to the impacts of climate change
Define the specific actions and resources required to effectively conserve and sustainably utilize national CWR diversity
Provide a framework and roadmap for long-term conservation and sustainable use of CWR
Contribute to regional and global efforts in CWR conservation and sustainable use
The aim is to prevent the loss of CWR diversity and maximize its availability for crop improvement

5. THE CWR NSAP CONCEPT: elements
National agricultural and floristic diversity
National CWR diversity
Define concrete actions for conservation and use of CWR
Stakeholder collaboration
Monitoring and review
Important CWR taxa
Ex situ conservation programme
Pre-breeding, local communities, public awareness
Sites for active in situ conservation
CONCRETE ACTIONS for conservation & sustainable use of CWR

6. THE CWR NSAP CONCEPT: implementation
Strategic actions
Policy interventions to enable concrete actions
Provide the enabling conditions and necessary incentives to achieve NSAP objectives

7. THE CWR NSAP CONCEPT: implementation
Enabling environment
Review existing policy
Integrate CWR conservation into existing national, regional and global conservation and sustainable use initiatives
Define lead agencies and stakeholder responsibilities
Identify capacity building needs
Develop communication strategy
Sustainability: endorsement, financial support, stakeholder commitment

8. THE CWR NSAP CONCEPT: examples

9. Spain – complementary areas network for priority CWR
Complementarity areas selected to cover two thirds of all CWR species in the Spanish National Inventory for protection. Selection ranking order and number of additional species added to the network (in brackets) are presented for each site. Underlined and bold numbers tag those areas that are inside protected areas (PA). Number in red points out the first area selected according to the number of CWR species added to the network, but outside the Natura 2000 network of SCI. Pink numbers show areas partially overlapping with a PA and blue numbers point out areas less than 10 km away from a PA in Natura 2000 network.
Rubio Teso et al. 2013

10. Finland – 5 proposed CWR in situ genetic reserves
Portugal – 9 complementary sites for 19 priority CWR 1 2 7 4 8 5 6 3 9
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Fitzgerald 2013
Magos Brehm 2009

11. Jordan – complementary areas (grids and PAs) for top 100 priority taxa
Magos Brehm et al. 2014

12. Finland – collected CWR diversity vs
Finland – collected CWR diversity vs. existing diversity of priority CWR
Fitzgerald 2013

13. Jordan – priority taxa not conserved ex situ
Jordan – ecogeographic diversity of priority taxa not conserved ex situ
Not conserved ex situ!
Magos Brehm et al. 2014

14. THE CWR NSAP: documentation

15. THE CWR NSAP: documentation
Technical background document
NSAP

16. THE CWR NSAP: documentation
Technical background document
NSAP
Summary!

17. THE CWR NSAP: documentation
me/documents/PGR/PubPGR/ResourceBook/TEX T_ALL_2511.pdf

18. 10th November 2015, Pretoria, South Africa
In Situ conservation and use of crop wild relatives in three ACP countries of SADC region
National Strategic Action Plan for the conservation and sustainable use of crop wild relatives
Joana Magos Brehm, Shelagh Kell, Imke Thormann, Nigel Maxted and Ehsan Dulloo
South Africa national stakeholders’ workshop on the preparation of the National Strategic Action Plan for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Crop Wild Relatives
10th November 2015, Pretoria, South Africa