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Albania: A lesson in localism

Sustainable Food Trust

Robert has been researching, cataloguing, trialling and maintaining the great diversity of landraces that continue to be grown throughout the area, the last stronghold for locally adapted, genetically and organoleptically unique landraces of garden crops. Albania is no different.

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Seeds from Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change

Civil Eats

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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