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Pro Specie Rara

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Pro Specie Rara: Saving the Alps' Forgotten Crops

Food & Farming

🇨🇭 Switzerland

Since 1982, this Swiss foundation has kept old alpine grain, vegetable and fruit varieties and mountain livestock breeds alive by growing them, not just storing them, on working farms.

1,000varietiesGarden and field plant varieties conserved
1,800varietiesFruit varieties conserved
26breedsNative livestock breeds supported
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