From potatoes to quinoa, many of our favourite foods are at risk from threats like climate change and disease. The "seed guardians" of Peru's Potato Park are hoping to change that.The potatoes that grow in the Andes of South America are far more than a starchy staple of the local diet. They are a rich part of the culture.
But now these beguiling vegetables have a new and vital role to play – helping to ensure potato crops can adapt to the challenges of climate change.Potato Park The work taking place at Potato Park is part of a much larger effort to find ways of preserving and adapting valuable food plants around the world as they face threats from climate change, habitat destruction, pollution and plain old neglect., which holds backup versions of seeds from all over the world, including some deposited by representatives of the Potato Park in 2017, is nicknamed"the doomsday vault".
By conserving crops through cultivation, they are constantly given opportunities to adapt to real world conditions In fact, you don’t need to be a farmer to save seeds and steward a diverse range of crops for the future. Seed Savers Exchange is a non-profit organisation based in Iowa, US, dedicated to the preservation of heirloom seeds. The organisation uses a combination of ex situ conservation and in situ conservation . All of their seeds are open-pollinated, which means that growers can save their own seed year after year.