{"id":114029,"date":"2026-01-10T17:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/?p=114029"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:47:13","slug":"seed-guardians-for-biodiversity-agrobiodiversity-ecosystem-services-and-climate-adaptation-seedguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/seed-guardians-for-biodiversity-agrobiodiversity-ecosystem-services-and-climate-adaptation-seedguard\/","title":{"rendered":"Seed Guardians for Biodiversity, Agrobiodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Climate Adaptation (SEEDGUARD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Project objective: <\/strong>Promoting climate change adaptation, and disaster risk prevention, resilience, taking into account ecosystem-based approaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donor organization: <\/strong>Interreg VI-B NEXT Black Sea Basin Programme.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Financial\u00a0Support:<\/strong> \u00a0(Interreg VI-B) NEXT Black Sea Basin Programme<\/p>\n<p><strong>Target Regions: <\/strong>Kvemo Kartli; Kakheti<\/p>\n<p><strong>Period: <\/strong>2024-2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Overall Objective:<\/strong> To promote the conservation and sustainable use of traditional vegetable varieties and landraces by establishing Seed Guardians, thereby enhancing agrobiodiversity, food diversity, and ecosystem services in the Black Sea region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Specific Objective: <\/strong>To establish Local Community Seed Collections (CSCs) that will serve as seed guardians, ensuring the availability of traditional vegetable varieties. These CSCs will support the conservation of biodiversity, strengthen agrobiodiversity, enhance ecosystem services, and contribute to climate adaptation. Ultimately, the initiative will help guarantee food security, foster healthy food production, and increase the diversity of food products for citizens across the Black Sea area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partnership: <\/strong>SeedGuard is a collaborative initiative involving four partners from four Black Sea countries:<\/p>\n<p>Union of Bulgarian Black Sea Local Authorities (UBBSLA) \u2013 Lead Partner (Bulgaria)<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Black Sea Development Agency (DOKA) \u2013 Turkey<\/p>\n<p>Association Global Project \u2013 Romania<\/p>\n<p>National Association of Local Authorities (NALAG) \u2013 Georgia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total budget for all project partners:<\/strong> 489,048.00 EUR.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113027\" src=\"https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/X-300x128.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/X-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/X-1x1.png 1w, https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/X-10x4.png 10w, https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/X.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113011\" src=\"https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u10d1\u10da\u10d4\u10e5-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u10d1\u10da\u10d4\u10e5-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u10d1\u10da\u10d4\u10e5-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u10d1\u10da\u10d4\u10e5-10x4.jpg 10w, https:\/\/nala.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u10d1\u10da\u10d4\u10e5.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project objective: Promoting climate change adaptation, and disaster risk prevention,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-completed-projects-of-athea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114029"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118226,"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114029\/revisions\/118226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nala.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}