Seed banks and botanic gardens both protect food plant diversity but have mostly worked separately. A new Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants aims to bring them together so more crop varieties and wild relatives get saved, studied, and used.
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Genebanks and botanic gardens hold large, complementary collections of food plant diversity but have historically worked in isolation on conservation, research, and education.
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Four essential steps are proposed: documenting the multiple dimensions of food plant diversity, conserving it, positioning it for broader use, and raising awareness, all requiring coordinated information, policies, and actions.
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The authors announce the launch of the Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants and highlight recent examples of successful cross-sector collaboration.
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