The overarching aim of this project is the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Securing of the national and globally significant agrobiodiversity of Tajikistan, including in particular the valuation and maintenance of crop landraces, crop wild relatives and their associated knowledge and cultural values. The project will improve agrobiodiversity conservation, help facilitate its use and ensure the fair and equitable sharing of the profits arising from its use for the benefit to the people of Tajikistan by underpinning food and nutritional security and promoting wealth and wellbeing. As such it will mitigate the four barriers that are unnecessarily restricting the conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity in Tajikistan.
The project objective is the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Securing of the national and globally significant agrobiodiversity and the associated knowledge and cultural aspects of traditional agro-ecosystems of Tajikistan. This encompasses the valuation and maintenance crop landraces, crop wild relatives and their associated knowledge and cultural methods within the traditional agro-ecosystems of Tajikistan.
Implementing Agencies
Committee for Environmental Protection/Food and Agriculture Organization
Funding Source
GEF Trust Fund
GEF Project Grant
1,776,484
Implementation period
2022-2024
Component 1 Improved enabling environment for Agrobiodiversity conservation
Outcome 1.1: Enabling environment supports conservation of globally important agrobiodiversity (ABD)
Outcome 2.1: Increased climate resilience and sustainable use of target landraces and CWR through targeted participatory plant breeding and capacity building to promote crop improvement:
Outcome 3.1: Improved knowledge, financing and awareness promotes conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity
Implementation period: 2022-2024
Total project funds (in USD): 1 776 484
E&S Risk Category: B