Plant diversity is essential in so many ways. So it’s good to learn that the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has announced ‘voluntary, international standards for the many repositories – or genebanks – around the world that store seeds and other materials used to reproduce plants, as well as living plants in the field.’ Here’s the FAO announcement.
I’m grateful to my fellow bloggers at One Billion Hungry: Can we feed the world? for drawing attention to this.
Science on the Land 