This article looks at the importance of preserving wild and local varieties of plants that have traits tolerant to high temperature, elevated CO2 as a way of preparing for climate change. These might have been discarded in the past due to low yield potential but can be made use of today as parents for the breeding of tolerant varieties to climate change. There is a need to revisit gene banks with a view to searching for unique traits required for climate change. In this search, indigenous knowledge and farmer’s wisdom have immense value.
Via Luigi Guarino