2010: A crucial year for BIODIVERSITY
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The United Nations has invited the world to take action to safeguard the variety of life on earth, making 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity.
Even though our very existence on earth depends on it, we have been losing the diversity of our planet’s lifeforms at an alarming rate for several decades. Our ability to feed ourselves is at stake.
- 80% of Mexico’s maize varieties grown in the 1930s are gone.
- 90% of the 10,000 wheat varieties grown in China a century ago have been lost.
- 90% of US fruit and vegetable varieties have disappeared in the last century.
As a signatory to the International Convention on Biodiversity, Canada has pledged targets. But how well are we doing?
To learn more about USC Canada’s approach, take a look at our short video, Banking Diversity. And stay tuned to this site for coming events, actions and knowledge-sharing. Let’s make this year count.
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USC Canada
was founded by
Dr Lotta Hitschmanova in 1945. Our award-winning Seeds of Survival program promotes vibrant family farms, strong rural communities, and healthy ecosystems around the world.
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The One and Only One Solution of Climate Change and Biodiversity – The United World.
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