Why barley? Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is the fourth most important cereal crop in the world after wheat, maize and rice. It has a global production of more than 150 million tonnes produced from…
Why banana/plantain? About 150 million tonnes of bananas (Musa spp.) are harvested annually throughout the tropics, but only 15% or so (mainly dessert types) is traded internationally. Most…
Existence threatened But many have not been collected and their existence in the wild is threatened by deforestation, expansion of agriculture, climate change and other challenges. If they disappear…
The project included four main components: the prioritization of crop wild relatives based on a gap analysis, the collection of CWR in the field, CWR conservation in genebanks, and the use of CWR…
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The project focused on the collecting and conservation of the wild relatives of 28 priority crops. Nineteen of these were also subject to pre-breeding activities.
A S A F E G U A R D I N G T H E W O R L D ’ S C R O P W I L D R E L AT I V E S Introducing the Wild 4 Collecting at a Glance 6 A Global Collecting Effort 9 No Walk in the Park What it Took…
