The COUSIN project has designed and produced a series of five video scribing to explore the history, characteristics, and potential of Crop Wild Relatives, the “cousins” of modern crops and a valuable resource for the future of our agriculture.
The first in this series is entitled “The journey of plant domestication” and is about the process of plant domestication, from the first human choices at the end of the Ice Age to the gradual transformation of wild species into crops. The video explores how selection has shaped desirable traits, the loss of biodiversity that followed, and how today’s breeding and new domestication efforts aim to respond to modern challenges while preserving biodiversity.
Subtitles available in English, Italian, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish.