«In-situ conservation of crop wild relatives through enhanced information management and field application» is a UNEP/GEF co-financed project that addresses national and global needs to improve global food security through effective conservation and use of crop wild relatives. These wild relatives include the ancestors of modern crops and varieties and species related to them.
This project brings together five countries: Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Uzbekis-tan, IPGRI and five other international conservation agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), the United Nations Environment Program's World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food, BLE (before the German Centre for Documentation and Information in Agriculture (ZADI). Each of the countries has signifi-cant numbers of important and threatened crop wild relatives.
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