How Do We Preserve the Vanishing Foods of the Earth? lithub.com/how-do-we-pres…
Let me count the ways...
Community seed banks
Protection of indigenous knowledge
Farmers Rights farmersrights.org
National, regional & international genebanks
Ratification and implementation of the @planttreaty
Protection of pollinators
Promotion of diversity in agricultural landscapes and diets
Inventorying protected areas for crop wild relatives and tailoring management to their needs @CropWildRelativ
Sharing #genebank data on @GenesysPGR
Supporting Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) fao.org/giahs/en/
Trying unusual and rare crops
Saving rare and endangered breeds of #livestock en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_r…
Support you local #seedsavers
Geographic indications can be useful wipo.int/geo_indication…
Visit a farmer, learn about their lives
Learn to cook
Get into slow food @SlowFoodHQ
Learn about plant breeding
If you can, grow some unusual veggies
Support your local small seed company
Follow the research. We help with that at the Agricultural Bioversity Weblog’s Brainfood, every Monday morning agro.biodiver.se/?s=Brainfood+&…
Even @GlobalSeedVault plays a role, as ultimate backup of the ultimate raw materials of our food 🥘
But don’t just take my word for it, a lot of this is in the @FAO 2nd Global Plan of Action fao.org/agriculture/cr…. There’s a new one coming up...
Collect data on crop diversity as part of agricultural censuses
