Lead country
Azerbaijan
Participating countries
Azerbaijan
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From December 13, 2016 to December 31, 2021
Project ID: 5482
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Ecosystem management and restoration
Sub-area(s)
- Agrobiodiversity
Landscape(s)
- Conserved areas
- Grasslands
Sub-landscape(s)
- Productive landscapes/Seascapes
- Drylands
- Steppes
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
Strategy
- Food and agricultural commodities
- Governance
- Management operation
Sub-strategy
- FACS strategies for sustainable supply chain (TP 4)
- Sustainable agriculture practices and use of resources (TP 2, 7, 8, 9)
- Crops diversity, nutrition and ABS (TP 1, 10)
- Transboundary governance
- Knowledge/Data management
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Smallholder farmers
Gender equality
- Women farmers
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender targeted
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
- 15.3 Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
Hot topic
- Poverty reduction
- Nature-based solution
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
About this project
Description
The project will ensure conservation and sustainable use of threatened local plant genetic resources important to biodiversity, land integrity and food security of Azerbaijan. The project concentrates on the steppe, arid and semi-arid zones in Shaki, Goranboy and Kurdemir rayons. On the one hand these are areas which are most affected by wind and irrigation erosion, on the other hand they are home for wild relatives of crops and local land races. 56% of the income of communities in Shaki, Goychay, and Goranboy rayons comes from cereal, cereal-leguminous and vegetable crop agriculture respectively. Household farms here have best remaining traditional skills in crop and vegetable cultivation and relevant facilities/institutions (seed base, research institutes, NGOs) with high potential to raise the share of local genetic material in the production.
Objectives
Ensure the conservation and sustainable use of globally threatened crop varieties important for biodiversity, food security and sustainable land management.
USD $4,310,502
Grant amount
USD $41,400,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,310,502)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Azerbaijan
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