Global Crop Conservation Strategies: Working Together to Protect Crop Diversity
Since 2007, the Crop Trust has facilitated the development of Global Crop Conservation Strategies to identify priority collections and actions to strengthen the conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA), and to ensure that conservation activities and priorities are better coordinated among stakeholders (including genebanks and their users) worldwide.
"Crop diversity is essential for our food systems. But protecting it is not something one country or institution can do alone. The Global Crop Conservation Strategies are practical, expert-led guides that help countries, researchers and genebanks work together to conserve crops and their wild relatives."
Developed with the support of the International Plant Treaty, the Strategies help improve how crop collections are protected, strengthen skills and capacity where it is most needed and make information on crop diversity easier to find and use. Learn more about the Global Crop Conservation Strategies: www.croptrust.org/what-we-do/projects/mainstreaming-the-global-crop-conservation-strategies.
This video was produced as part of the project Mainstreaming Global Crop Conservation Strategies in Plant Treaty Processes led by the Crop Trust and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (BMLEH) in collaboration with the International Plant Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Voiceover: Sakura Radscheit