- FAO explains why crop diversity matters.
- Well, for one thing, there’s food prices, that’s why.
- Ah, yes, crop diversity: “You gotta have it. You gotta use it. You gotta talk about it.”
- Odisha mainstreams landrace diversity in its seed system.
- Meanwhile, the Farmers Union of Cyprus is stashing seeds away in Community Bank of Cypriot Traditional Seeds.
- Looks a bit like the Groupements de Production Artisanale de Semences in Haiti. If you squint.
- If only there were some guidelines for managing such community seed banks.
- Iraqi Kurdistan gets in on the genebank act.
- Iraq used to have a genebank, but what happened to it has just happened in Sudan.
- Ah, to have a Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index so that such things could be predicted and steps taken.
- And a monitoring system and some targets would be good too.