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Last updated on December 26, 2024.

Melaku Worede is a geneticist and agronomist of Ethiopian origin renowned for building one of the finest seed conservation centers in the world, employing science to benefit poor farmers, and saving Africa's seeds from oblivion.

Born: 1936

Source: Wikipedia

Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in the building up of the world's genetic resource base... As is already happening in my country, farmers and national genebanks in developing countries can work together to preserve and expand crop genetic diversity on behalf of all humanity.