In Conversation: Restoring environments through seed banks and plant nurseries

In Conversation - Conservation's Leading Edges: Restoring environments through seed banks and plant nurseries
Our planet is losing domesticated and wild plant diversity at an unprecedented rate. The loss of crop diversity is particularly alarming: out of approximately 20,000 edible plants, only 9 accounts for two-thirds of all global crop production.
Indigenous and local communities the world over have been saving the seeds of the plants they have been in a relationship with for millennia, creating a continuous thread of connection and evolution to their plant ancestors. These communities are currently at the leading edge of seed protection and maintenance, to ensure justice, food sovereignty, adaptability and biodiversity conservation through these turbulent times and into the future.
In this session, we will hear from grassroots practitioners working with their communities to maintain the incredible diversity of their plant kin by saving their seeds, growing plants and restoring their environments. We will hear about the challenges they face, the lessons they are learning and how these initiatives are contributing to conservation and community livelihoods.
Contact details for the speakers are provided at the end of the video.
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