Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.
We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.
Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.
It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
Each country has to decide how to best engage their own citizens and their own policy environment to ensure they can produce the food they need.
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.