[PCA] FW: NPCC News: Native Plants and Food Security: Crop Science Journal Publishes Special Section on Crop Wild Relatives

[Emily Roberson]

Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: Conference and special publication on crop wild relatives highlights role of native plants in food security

January 24, 2020

 

  <https://ymlpmail2.net/imgz/09yp_wildpotatoesGuardiansm.jpg> Last year, the American Public Gardens Association partnered with the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and the Soil Science Society of America to examine how north America’s natural areas and the native plants they support can help make our crops and food supply more resilient in the face of climate change, disease and other growing threats.

 

The results are published in a special section of the journal Crop Science, released in November 2019.

 

The meeting connected agricultural researchers, botanical gardens and others to bring together diverse perspectives and expertise to formulate a roadmap for the conservation of food plants and their wild relatives in natural landscapes.

 

Read the press release from the Crop Science Society of America <https://www.crops.org/news/media-inquiries/releases/2019/1210/1142/> 

Read the special section of Crop Science <https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/cs/tocs/59/6#h2-SPECIAL%20SUBMISSIONS:%20CELEBRATING%20CROP%20DIVERSITY:%20CONNECTING%20AGRICULTURE,%20PUBLIC%20GARDENS%20AND%20SCIENCE> 

Learn more about native plants and food security in the NPCC Nature Based Solutions/Ecosystem Services toolkit <http://nativeplantsocietyofus.org/ecosystem-services-resources/food-security/> 

 

Photo: Wild potatoes could stave off world food crisis <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/29/how-perus-potato-museum-could-stave-off-world-food-crisis>  © The Guardian

 

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Emily B. Roberson, Ph.D.

Native Plant Conservation Campaign <http://plantsocieties.cnps.org/> 

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