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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Why we are storing billions of seeds

In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity -- one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants support human life, he shares the vision of the Millennium Seed Bank, which has stored over 3 billion seeds to date from dwindling yet essential plant species.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectCrop diversity
PublisherTED
Publication year2009
RegionsGlobal
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typeMultimedia
Resource linkhttps://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_drori_why_we_re_storing_billions_of_seeds?fbclid=IwAR18t8VOlQ-PxWFYCvTD-waK1Tw54veRMe9VzFIOhwyWfEskiv0RnEZ56oY#t-6677
KeywordsAgricultural biodiversity; Role of genebanks; Value chain