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  • Genetics
  • Food Systems

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  • Crop diversity is essential for food system resilience, sustainability, and adaptation.
  • Effective utilization of crop diversity by breeders and farmers relies on its conservation, identification, and accessibility.
  • Evolving research and breeding practices necessitate advancements in global crop genetic resource conservation systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore evolving priorities for global efforts in safeguarding and utilizing crop diversity through ex situ collections.
  • To advocate for better integration of diverse genetic resource holders into global conservation initiatives.
  • To propose actions for enhancing the role of crop diversity collections in fostering sustainable food systems.

Main Methods:

  • Exploration of current practices and challenges in ex situ genetic resource conservation.
  • Analysis of the changing landscape of crop diversity utilization in research and breeding.
  • Review of existing global conservation frameworks and decision-making processes.

Main Results:

  • Current conservation systems face challenges in keeping pace with evolving uses of crop diversity.
  • There is a need to better integrate collections held by academic institutions and other non-standard gene banks.
  • Equitable access and benefit-sharing are critical components of effective conservation.

Conclusions:

  • Enhanced integration of all genetic resource collections is vital for global conservation efforts.
  • Key actions are needed to ensure crop diversity collections support diverse, equitable, resilient, and sustainable food systems.
  • Strengthening the global conservation system is paramount for future agricultural development.