TRADITOM, an EU-funded project that ran from 2015-2018, provided the most comprehensive exploration of traditional European tomato varieties to date. Much like Tomatoes for Tomorrow is working towards in Mexico, TRADITOM worked in Europe to "valorise the genetic diversity stored in traditional tomato varieties and to increase their resilience in order to prevent their steady replacement by higher yielding, hardier and often less tasty modern cultivars".
We are now exploring how their findings and experience can help to inform our efforts to identify, protect, celebrate Mexico's tomato agrodiversity.
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