Traditional crops key to facing climate change

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14 November 2011 - Shivaji Pandey, Director of FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division, explains the importance of plant genetic resources for agriculture. Traditional food crops and other plant varieties worldwide are in urgent need of protection from climate change and other environmental stresses, FAO said today, as it observed the tenth anniversary of International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.