The Interactive Toolkit for Crop Wild Relative Conservation Planning is designed to provide guidance to plan and implement active in situ and ex situ conservation of CWR at national level. The conservation recommendations that result from this national CWR conservation planning process are used to develop National Strategic Action Plans (NSAP) (or National Strategies) for the conservation and sustainable use of CWR (to know more about NSAP development, click here).
There is no single method for planning CWR conservation or for developing an NSAP for the conservation of CWR. This is mainly due to factors concerning financial resources, availability of baseline biodiversity data, the country where the NSAP is to be implemented, as well as the focal area and remit of the agencies that are responsible for formulating and implementing the NSAP. Nevertheless, CWR conservation planning can be viewed as a series of steps and decisions that follow the same basic pattern in all countries. This Toolkit and its protocols, examples and resources should thus be viewed as a framework and an aid for planning CWR conservation, not a prescription. It is important to note that the Toolkit can be used for the entire conservation planning process or for individual steps, and that the steps do not necessarily have to be followed in the same order.
The Interactive Toolkit for Crop Wild Relative Conservation Planning was based on Maxted N, Magos Brehm J and Kell S (2013) Resource Book for the Preparation of National Plans of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Rome, Italy.
The Toolkit can be exported to be used offline. All its contents will be accessible via this exported version. All is needed is to click on the EXPORT TOOLKIT button above on the right. You can also download a PDF version for consultation and easy printing of its content by clicking on DOWNLOAD THE PDF VERSION OF THE TOOLKIT on the right.
CITATION: Magos Brehm J, Kell S, Thormann I, Gaisberger H, Dulloo ME and Maxted N (2017) Interactive Toolkit for Crop Wild Relative Conservation Planning version 1.0. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK and Bioversity International, Rome, Italy. Available at: www.cropwildrelatives.org/conservation-toolkit/.
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Who the Toolkit is for
Who the Toolkit is for
Who the Toolkit is for
Three different groups of users may access and use this Toolkit:
- FAO national focal points.
- Agencies responsible for planning and implementing national strategies, such as national agricultural or environmental agencies.
- NGOs (e.g. farmers’ organizations), local institutions (e.g. genebanks, universities, research institutes), and individual scientists.
The mechanisms of delivering the Toolkit to its users and how it can fit in the wider context of PGRFA conservation is illustrated below.
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How to use the Toolkit
How to use the Toolkit
The Toolkit can be used either online or offline. To use it offline, the full content of the Toolkit can be exported by clicking the EXPORT button which appears on the top-right of every page.
Please be aware that in order to access the modules of the Toolkit you will need to register using your email address and to provide some information about the country in which you are based for work, the type of organization you work for and the purpose for using the Toolkit. These data are for statistical purposes only. Once you have registered you can access the Toolkit any time you require using your email address.The Toolkit is designed as a sequential but flexible process. It is advisable, however, that you first introduce yourself to CWR and to NSAP and then move onto the Toolkit itself and start with the first module on ‘National CWR conservation planning’ which briefly explains CWR conservation planning can be undertaken. You can then move onto the different modules bearing in mind that each individual module corresponds to a particular step in the conservation planning process.
The Toolkit is divided into 12 sections, each of which corresponds to a step in the national CWR conservation planning process. Each section provides a brief introduction to the corresponding step and is then divided into:
- Methodology:
- Briefly outlines the different phases for that particular conservation planning step.
- Includes an interactive flowchart (shown by default), which is the central element of this Toolkit. The flowchart is composed of a series of yes/no questions, helping the user move through the various phases and choose the options that are most appropriate given the user's national context. Detailed explanations of each phase are linked to the interactive flowchart and are accessible by clicking on the shapes of the flowchart. In addition, there is a static version of the flowchart which can be consulted at any time and a full written text that exactly matches the information presented in the flowchart.
- Examples and applied use:
- Makes reference to case studies showcasing how that particular CWR conservation planning step has been undertaken.
- References:
- List of references used in the preparation of the various texts from the section.
- Additional materials and resources:
- Includes supplementary materials relevant to the section, providing tools and extra practical examples to help the user visualize and understand how to undertake that particular conservation planning step. These materials include:
Books, scientific papers, grey literature. 
PowerPoint presentations. 
Projects. 
Recordings, video files. 
Software tools. 
Web links. 
Social networks. - Methodology:
The Interactive Toolkit for Crop Wild Relative Conservation Planning was developed within the framework of the SADC CWR project www.cropwildrelatives.org/sadc-cwr-project (2014-2016),
which was co-funded by the European Union and implemented through ACP-EU Co-operation Programme in Science and Technology (S&T II) by the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States.
Grant agreement no FED/2013/330-210.