Since the 1930s it has been widely acknowledged that agricultural crop diversity is being lost at an alarming rate. The international response to this genetic erosion has principally taken the form of ex situ genebanks. ...

This short quote from the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization¿s Harvesting Nature¿s Diversity report (authored by Hope Shand), draws attention to the intricate entanglement of human and non-human life on ...