[MPWG] wild crops and climate change

[penny at pinenut.com]

This was a news article I thought might interest some.

Climate change is threatening the survival of crops such as the potato and the peanut, say researchers, and there is an urgent need to collect and store seeds from their wild relatives for future food security.But a study conducted by the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) and presented this week at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Rome, Italy, found that many as 61 percent of the 51 wild peanut species analysed and 12 percent of the 108 wild potato species analysed could become extinct as the result of climate change in the next 50 years. 
full text here:
http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/ng.asp?n=76757-climate-change-seed-banks-wild-crops-food-security
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