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You are invited to a free panel discussion and reception on Wednesday, 2 November, focusing on the important role played by Crop Wild Relatives and the global system of genebanks in developing adaptation to the impacts of climate change.
Over the next decades the world is expected to experience climate change that will likely bring about more extreme weather such as higher average temperatures and more variable rainfall. This will impact most food crops in tangible ways and in many cases agricultural yields are predicted to fall significantly. Adapting agriculture to climate change is therefore an urgent challenge of our time.
 Crop Wild Relatives have a special role to play and efforts are underway in Australia and around the world to conserve them, and through prebreeding and evaluation, prepare materials for use by plant breeders and farmers for adapting crops to climate change. These crop wild relatives are threatened in their natural environment; they are also missing in crop collections and therefore not yet generally available for use.
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The panel will include:
The discussion will be co-hosted by
the Crawford Fund, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
and the National Rural Press Club.
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This free event will be held on 2 November at the
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