print email comment close Crop Diversity: What is Crop Diversity URL: http://www.croptrust.org/main/whatis.php Description: This presentation looks at crop diversity and its importance in agriculture and food security. It discusses the conservation of crop diversity (including gene banks), threats to crops, and priority crops such as bananas, maize, sorghum, and cassava. From the Global Crop Diversity Trust, an organization whose mission is "to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide." Publisher: The Global Crop Diversity Trust Extra Keywords genebank LII Database Information: Record 21980 created by Jennifer English on 06/26/2006 Last modification on 06/27/2006 Published: 06/29/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21980