Promoting in-situ conservation of agrobiodiversity in West Asia
2002
Amri, A. | Valkoun, J. | Shehadeh, A. (ICARDA, Aleppo (Syria))
Conservation of dryland agrobiodiversity is receiving increasing attention in response to emerging global concerns over biodiversity loss, desertification, and global warming. Dryland agrobiodiversity in West Asia sustains the livelihood of local communities and provides useful genes for plant breeding programs worldwide. ICARDA has collected with national agricultural research system partners (NARS) more than 129,000 accessions of its mandate crop plants, landraces, and wild relatives of important crop species. These are stored (ex situ) in the Center's genebank. Conservation on site (in situ), in farmers? fields or protected areas, has been promoted recently as a complementary method to conserve a larger genetic base, while benefiting from natural selection and the knowledge of local communities
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