
3 December 2019
Crop Wild Relatives Project Coordinator
Crop Wild Relatives, Medicinal Plants, UK Flora, Invasive Species, Red Listing, East Asia, Riparian ecosystems, Urban environments
My role as Crop Wild Relatives Project Coordinator is to support the development and implementation of seed collecting partnerships in order to deliver plant conservation and the sustainable utilisation of plant resources, with the goal of improving global food security and livelihoods through the Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project (Crop Wild Relatives – CWR).
The CWR Project is co-managed by the Global Crop Diversity Trust and is funded by the Government of Norway. Kew’s role is to provide technical support in seed viability and seed longevity; to organise the collection of seed from priority crop wild relatives under-represented in existing genebank collections and to provide samples of material for research and pre-breeding by partners.
Prior to taking on my current role, I worked as the Interim Coordinator of the UK Native Seed Hub at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank. I also worked as a volunteer in the Herbarium at Kew on the Sampled Red List Index Project (SRLI) from 2007-2011.
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