BSF project "Improving food security by enhancing wheat production and its resilience to climate change through maintaining the diversity of currently grown landraces"

In Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, wheat plays a very important role in food security and resilience. While wheat landraces are still cultivated by farmers, climate change has resulted in unstable wheat production across Central and West Asia and increased vulnerability of the rural population. This Benefit-sharing Fund project is expanding on-farm wheat diversity through introduction and promotion of improved wheat landraces, capacity building and establishment of community-based conservation systems.