Genebanks at the summit

The preliminary ideas for transforming the food system, which will, ahem, feed into the UN Food Summit, are out.

https://twitter.com/FoodSystems/status/1377628805787959299

There’s a quite a bit in there about diversity — of crops, production systems and diets — but let me single out the four solutions which explicitly mention genebanks:

1. Action Track 3.10: Increasing agrobiodiversity for improved production and resilience.
2. Action Track 3.14: Broadening the genetic base of nature-positive production systems.
3. Action Track 5.10: Tools of accelerated breeding and trait mining underserved crops.
4. Action Track 5.21: Long-term conservation of food diversity in gene banks and in the field, and sustained diversification of the food basket.

Not bad, eh?