FAO: Traditional Crops Key to Facing Climate Change

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) says that traditional food crops and other plant varieties worldwide are in urgent need of protection from climate change and other environmental stresses.

FAO director-general, Jacques Diouf, called on countries to develop specific policies to conserve and make wider use of plant varieties for generations to come.

Diouf, whose comments came as FAO observed the 10th anniversary of the international treaty to protect and share plant genetic resources, also lauded the injection of US$6 million made available through the treaty to help farmers of traditional crops adapt to climate change.

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