South African Development Community (SADC) Crop Wild Relatives Project, co-funded by the European Union in 2014 and implemented through ACP-EU Co-operation Programme in Science and Technology, has two main aims. First, to develop scientific expertise in SADC to conserve crop wild relatives and identify traits potentially useful to enable agriculture to adapt to climate change. Secondly, to ensure that the conservation of crop wild relatives was incorporated into National Strategic Action Plans. Together, these would enhance the link between conservation and use of crop wild relatives in the three partner countries and within the SADC region, as a means of underpinning regional food security and mitigating the predicted adverse impact of climate change.