Global agriculture faces unprecedented challenges. Critical to overcoming these challenges is conserving the diversity of the plants and animals we farm. [Scriberia’s] animation for Crop Trust explains how genebanks – which store and safeguard precious samples of roots, tubers and seeds – are helping people around the world to breed better crops.
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