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Crops & crop management

Crop diversity at risk: the case for sustaining crop collections (pdf 2mb)

This publication addresses the need for crop diversity collections and the importance of support for genebanks which maintain the diversity of plants which underpin our food security.

It looks at the following issues:
- What is crop diversity?
- The conservation of crop diversity
- International commitment to saving crop diversity
- The state of crop collections worldwide

Resource link:
http://www.croptrust.org/ documents/WebPDF/wyereport.pdf
Source: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK (http://www.ukagriculture.com/ farming_today/ imperial_college_london.cfm)
Added to ADG on: 10 December 2007 , contributed by: ADG team
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