Target 11: By 2020, develop and implement strategies to conserve and maintain cultivated, farmed and domesticated genetic resources and their wild relatives, including other socio-economically and culturally valuable species

68% of Zimbabwe’s people live in the rural areas and derive their livelihoods from agriculture and biodiversity • Agro-biodiversity is of great importance to Zimbabwe as an adaptation strategy in the face of climate change. • Conservation of the local landraces, which have adapted to and do well in harsh and marginal conditions, is important for food security, and maintaining agro-biodiversity is a way of enhancing resilience