Tunisia plants seeds of hope against climate change ...Middle East

JEDAIDA: Tunisian farmers are turning to the past to ensure a future by planting indigenous seeds as the North African country suffers at a time of drought, disease and climate change.Traditional seeds come from a genetic heritage best suited to the environment, said Maher Medini, from Tunisia’s National Gene Bank, which promotes the development of sustainable agriculture in the country.“They are reservoirs of genes hundreds, if not thousands of years old,“ Medini said, adding that the seeds are more resistant to the ever-growing dangerous impacts of global warming.Climate change is causing challenging variations in rainfall, temperature and humidity, creating disease in the crops, he said.“

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