Sanja Mikić - Food Hero

Sanja Mikić is a researcher at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Serbia. She leads the FAO International Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund project in the country and she is responsible for collecting and researching local varieties of grain and cereals found in farmers’ fields, and national and international gene banks. Vulnerable farmers use these seeds and knowledge to diversify their production and food consumption and increase resilience to climate change.