USING THE FAO

AGROBIODIVERSITY

TOOLKIT:

DEVELOPMENT OF

NATIONAL STRATEGIES

FOR THE

CONSERVATION OF

CWR AND LR

Joana Magos Brehm1, Nigel Maxted2, Shelagh Kell2

1Botanical Garden, National Museum of Natural History, University of Lisbon (Portugal)2School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham (UK)

Why National CWR and LR

strategies?

Toolkit – the context

Characteristics

The users

How to use the toolkit

A request...

To finish...

OVERVIEW

CWR and LR are unique national

resources

CWR and LR are becoming more

threatened (habitat loss, degradation

and fragmentation, replacement by

modern cultivars and changes in land

use practices, climate change...) and

therefore are suffering from genetic

erosion

WHY NATIONAL CWR AND LR STRATEGIES?

Legislative requirement to

conserve

Require an integrated in situ

and ex situ conservation

approach, best implemented

via a National CWR / LR

Strategy

No single method of generation

WHY NATIONAL CWR AND LR STRATEGIES?

FAO International Treaty on PGRFA

FAO Global Plan of Action for the

Conservation and Sustainable

Utilization of PGRFA

Convention on Biological Diversity

THE TOOLKIT - CONTEXT

Coordinators ‑ N Maxted, J Magos Brehm,

SP Kell

Commissioned by - FAO Commission on

Genetic Resources for Food and

Agriculture (CGRFA)

Aim - To develop a Toolkit for National

Strategy Development of PGRFA that will

aid countries to formulate National

Strategies for the conservation of CWR

and LR

THE TOOLKIT - CONTEXT

Workshop “Conservation and sustainable use

of PGRFA, a Toolkit for national strategy

development”, Lyme Regis (UK), 17-18 March

2011: review the structure and content of the

Toolkit.

Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo (Benin), Baorong Lu (China), Edwin Chiwona (Malawi), Ehsan Dulloo (Bioversity International), Heli Fitzgerald (Finland), Joana Magos Brehm (Portugal), John Wiersema (USA), José Valls (Brazil), Nadiya Al-Saadi (Oman), Nigel Maxted (UK), Renzo Torricelli (Italy), Shelagh Kell (UK) Sonia Dias (Bioversity International), Suzanne Sharrock (BGCI), Tania Carolina Camacho-Villa (Mexico), and Valeria Negri (Italy).

Provides information on how to accomplish a specific task,

Provides complementary tools,

The user will be guided through its application,

The user decides exactly which tools to employ according to his/her circumstances,

It should be an aid and not a prescription,

Sequential but flexible process,

Possible to entry through several entry points.

THE TOOLKIT - CHARACTERISTICS

Countries with limited resources and knowledge on their CWR and LR diversity

Three different levels of users:

FAO national focal points,

National Strategy implementing agency and other national agencies (national focal points for agriculture, environment and possibly forestry),

Non Governmental Organisations (e.g. farmers’ organizations), local institutions (e.g. universities, research institutes), individual scientists.

THE TOOLKIT – THE USERS

Conservation strategy for CWR, LR or

both?

Section A (CWR) + section B (LR)

Each section: sub-sections = steps

needed to develop a national strategy

Each sub-section:

Current status

Overview of the

methodology

Additional materials

THE TOOLKIT – HOW TO USE IT

National botanical diversity National/global crop diversity

Prioritization of CWR diversity for active conservation

Integration with international legislation, strategies, habitat and

species conservation plans

Establishment of CWR conservation goals

National CWR inventory

National CWR conservation

strategy

Network of CWR genetic reserves

Systematic CWR ex situ conservation

Conserved national (and global) CWR diversity

Research and education Traditional, general and professional utilisation Breeding activities

MACRO-CONSERVATION APPLIED MICRO- AND MACRO-CONSERVATION MICRO-CONSERVATION

In situ actions

Ex situ actions Implementation of CWR

conservation goals

Collation of existing threat assessments

In situ gap analysis Ex situ gap analysis

Taxonomic and ecogeographic analysis of priority CWR

Novel threat assessment of priority CWR

Genetic analysis of priority CWR

Integration with other national strategies,

policies and schemes

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THE TOOLKIT – HOW TO USE IT

National Strategy for conservation of CWR – the model

National botanical diversity National/global crop diversity

Prioritization of CWR diversity for active conservation

Establishment of CWR conservation goals

National CWR inventory

Network of CWR genetic reserves

Systematic CWR ex situ conservation

Traditional, general and professional utilisation Breeding activities

APPLIED MICRO- AND MACRO-CONSERVATION

Implementation of CWR conservation goals

Collation of existing threat assessments

In situ gap analysis Ex situ gap analysis

Taxonomic and ecogeographic analysis of priority CWR

Novel threat assessment of priority CWR

Genetic analysis of priority CWR

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Step 1: National inventory of CWR

Step 2: Collation of existing threats

Step 3: Setting species conservation priorities

Step 4: Taxonomic and ecogeographic analysis of priority CWR

Step 5: Genetic data analysis of priority CWR

Step 6: Novel threat assessment

Step 7: CWR in situ and ex situ gap analysis

Step 8: Establishment of conservation goals

Step 9: Implementation of in situ conservation priorities (in and outside PAs)

Step 10: Implementation of ex situ conservation priorities

Step 11: Promoting the use of CWR diversity conserved

NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR CONSERVATION OF CWR – THE MODEL

CURRENT STATUS: highlights some

of the developments in that

particular area.

THE TOOLKIT – HOW TO USE IT

Regional inventory of CWR?

NO

Neighbouring country Flora/checklist?

NO

National Flora/checklist?

EXTRACT NATIONAL SPECIES FROM

REGIONAL INVENTORY

YES

YES

Digitized matching (Flora against Crops)?

List of crops (national and global)?

NO YES

NO YES

NO YES

NATIONAL CWR INVENTORY

HARMONISE TAXONOMY WITH NATIONAL FLORA

ENSURE ALL CROPS ARE INCLUDED (experts +

national and international statistics + other sources)

Global plant list?

NO

YES

VALIDATION BY EXPERTS

DIGITIZE BOTH FLORA/ CHECKLIST AND LIST OF CROPS

Expert-based approach + national and international

statistics + germplasm / herbaria survey

THE TOOLKIT – HOW TO USE IT

OVERVIEW OF THE METHODOLOGY:

thorough description of the

methodology to undertake that particular

step;

flowcharts that usually take the form

of an expert system (usually composed of

a series of Yes/No questions)

helps the user move through the

various steps and choose which options

are more adequate given a particular

national context.

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: books, scientific

papers, grey literature, PowerPoint

presentation, web links: practical examples

to help visualise and understand how to

undertake that particular step.

THE TOOLKIT – HOW TO USE IT

Review the document: whole document or

certain sections.

Provide additional materials to illustrate the

various steps in the development of a

national strategy.

A REQUEST...

First table of the questionnaire: availability

to review and/or to provide additional

materials for each section.

Second table of the questionnaire: for

reference details of additional materials (to

me during the workshop or send to

joanabrehm@gmail.com no later than the

1st October 2011).

YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE

ACKOWLEDGED!

Conservation of agrobiodiversity directly

links human well-being to biodiversity

conservation.

It requires collaboration between nature and

agricultural conservationists.

The toolkit is an FAO product.

Can be used soon to develop your own

National Strategy for CWR Conservation.

This is on-going work! So let me have your

opinion!

TO FINISH...

USING THE FAO

AGROBIODIVERSITY

TOOLKIT:

DEVELOPMENT OF

NATIONAL STRATEGIES

FOR THE

CONSERVATION OF

CWR AND LR

Joana Magos Brehm1, Nigel Maxted2, Shelagh Kell2

1Botanical Garden, National Museum of Natural History, University of Lisbon (Portugal)2School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham (UK)