Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

The race to protect the food of the future – why seed banks alone are not the answer

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par Helen Anne Curry, Associate Professor in History of Modern Science and Technology, University of Cambridge

Last summer I grew three varieties of corn in my tiny garden. I knew from the start that my harvest, if any, would be meagre. The plants would be hindered by poor soils, assertive pigeons and, worst of all, my pathetic knowledge of farming. Luckily it wasn’t so much the product I was interested in, as the process. I was interested in the idea of crop diversity – and in what it means to conserve it.

Today hundreds of organisations around the world, from community non-profits to international research agencies, strive to conserve crop diversity. Many are worried about a future in which…

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