October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 by Luigi Guarino

Working to enhance the multilateral system

Working Group Meets to Discuss Enhancement of Multilateral System #PGRFA #FoodCrops @FAO pic.twitter.com/SxyZxjIdQj

— PlantTreaty (@planttreaty) October 10, 2018

Will they come up with something that will work?

Here’s hoping. Follow the proceedings on IISD/ENB. Some background on all this from my work blog.

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1. Festivals, rituals and seed-saving go hand in hand, as this photo essay on Koraput’s Adivasis shows for World Indigenous Peoples Day.
2. Speaking of unlikely alliances, Israeli and Palestinian researchers have teamed up on wheat that can take the heat in a warming, drying Middle East.
3. Not to be outdone in the resilience stakes, the cowpea shrugs off both drought and flooding, according to FAO.
4. If all this talk of resilient crops has you inspired, here’s a how-to on starting your own community seed bank, in South Africa or anywhere else for that matter.
5. And for when preservation is really about nostalgia: Romania’s Buzau genebank is keeping childhood mint flavours alive, chocolate, clove and vanilla notes included.
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