Adapting agriculture to climate change: New global search to save endangered crop wild relatives

Friday, December 10, 2010 - 05:02 in Earth & Climate

The Global Crop Diversity Trust today announced a major global search to systematically find, gather, catalogue, use, and save the wild relatives of wheat, rice, beans, potato, barley, lentils, chickpea, and other essential food crops, in order to help protect global food supplies against the imminent threat of climate change, and strengthen future food security.

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