Together with the air we breathe and the water we drink, crop diversity is one of the most fundamentally important resources for human life on earth.This diversity is awe inspiring - there are more than 200,000 varieties of wheat alone. It provides the natural, biological basis of our ability to grow the food required today, as well as to meet the challenges of population growth, changing climates and constantly evolving pests and diseases.
No country in the world is self-sufficient in crop diversity – agriculture everywhere depends on it. Yet this diversity, contained and stored in seeds, is at risk of disappearing. But we don’t have to sit back and let this happen.
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