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

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)

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’ (https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2015/ntf-2015-092-gspc-en.pdf)

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

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

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

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

THE CWR NSAP CONCEPT: examples www.pgrsecure.org

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

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 1 0 Fitzgerald 2013 Magos Brehm 2009

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

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

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

THE CWR NSAP: documentation

THE CWR NSAP: documentation Technical background document NSAP

THE CWR NSAP: documentation Technical background document NSAP Summary!

THE CWR NSAP: documentation http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/agpho me/documents/PGR/PubPGR/ResourceBook/TEX T_ALL_2511.pdf www.fao.org/3/a-mm542e.pdf

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