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Talk during CIAT’s 50th Anniversary: The Future Seeds initiative seeks to build a state-of-the-art genebank that not only ensures their long-term conservation but also encourages their use to enrich diets and to help climate-proof food supply in the tropics. More information: http://ciat.cgiar.org/future-seeds/ Presenter: Peter Wenzl, Leader, Genetic Resources, CIAT. Cali, Colombia. 8-9 November 2017
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Future Seeds
- Future Seeds
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- Nothing else works without food Cereal flours, sugar Disturbed gut microbiome, & intestinal permeability Chronic diseases Systemic inflammation
- Global hunger index Developing world Sub-Saharan Africa South Asia Global Obesity (%) Obese men Obese women Underweight men Underweight women 1975 1982 1989 1996 2003 2010 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 © Peter Menzel © Peter Menzel
- Used in agriculture (200) 60% of calories (3) All plant species (300,000) Edible (50,000)
- We need to ‘biodiversify’ our diets!
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- • Diets • Environmental footprint • Climate change
- Beans: 38,000 Cassava: 6,600 Trop. Forages: 23,000 Globally largest collections of…
- [No. of native species per grid cell of 7,800 km2] Ellis et al. (2012) All is not loss: plant biodiversity in the anthropocene. PLoS ONE 7: e30535
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- Generic technologies to create a catalogue of actionable information
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- Writing to the genome ‘hardrive’ Palmgren et al (2017) T Plant Sci 22: 373
- Digital genebank
- 3 pillars of Future Seeds Conservation: traditional genebank Education: students & publicInformation: digital genebank
- FutureSeeds To be funded by: • Government of Colombia • Newton-Caldas Fund (UK) • …
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