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Sub-Saharan countries overlook fungal conservation, with serious implications for sustainability and livelihoods. This project supplies the information and policy advice needed for their Rio Convention strategies, raises awareness of fungi throughout Africa, strengthens Africa’s unique centre of mycological excellence at Parakou, and encourages replicable pioneering community efforts to reduce fungal diversity loss, poverty and gender inequality in Benin through in-situ conservation of native forests where illegal logging and charcoal production threaten sustainable livelihoods of women harvesting edible and medicinal fungi.