In response to advancing climate change and global population growth, crop breeders are striving to develop varieties that are more productive, resistant to disease, capable of growing in a changing climate, and with characteristics that farmers and consumers demand. Thus they can strengthen food security and help smallholders thrive in a challenging future.
The keys to developing these varieties lie in the vast genetic diversity of crops and their wild relatives, an agrobiodiversity that is largely preserved in the world’s genebanks.
