Solutions to this crisis lie within Mother Nature herself in the
form of diverse genes found in the wild ancestors of our staple
foods - and the man to hunt them down is Dr Ken Street, the Indiana
Jones of agriculture. Ken and his team will travel to the land
where agriculture began nearly 10,000 years ago. In the remotest
parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, the genetic origins of
our daily bread and other food still survive. The crops growing
here have taken centuries to develop robust genetic traits that
allow them to thrive in the harshest of climates. Scientists around
the world want access to these genes so they may be integrated into
food crops compromised by global warming.

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