Food stores: using Protected Areas to Secure Crop Genetic Diversity
Stolton, Sue ... [et al.]
2006
Plant genetic resources are a threatened but invaluable resource for present and future generations. Crop genetic diversity both in cultivated plants (landraces) and the wild plants from which our crops originate (crop wild relatives or CWR) provide important resources for food security, environmental sustainability and economic stability. It is thus perhaps surprising, considering this socio-economic importance that the conservation of CWR has not been systematically addressed and the rapid declines in landraces have generated little international conservation concern.
