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Small-scale farmers from developing countries produce one-third of the world’s food, yet they only receive 1.7 percent of climate finance even as they are forced to cope with droughts, floods, cyclones and other disasters.

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Countries must urgently ramp up action to adapt to the current and future impacts of climate change, as efforts now are too little and too slow, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) said in its latest report, published on Thursday.

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A vault built on an Arctic island to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes received new deposits on Wednesday - including for the first time from Iraq and Uruguay.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault...

At the last opening of the year, tightly packed seed packets from Iraq and Uruguay join more than 45,000 seed samples of crops from across the globe to be deposited deep inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 

A vault built on an...

Scientists working in research groves, like one in Nova Scotia, are developing your favorite new apple variety.

Imagine reaching up to a tree branch and plucking an apple that’s unusually tall and narrow — a variety called Kandil...

Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz joined Caitlin Welsh, Director of the Global Food Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies for an episode of Reset the Table to consider the role of crop...

Record-breaking heat waves across the globe are destroying crops, pushing up food prices and putting the food systems of many nations at risk.

In Europe, water and heat stress has pushed down crop yields, and in June, the already...

Nate Kleinman gathered seeds for Ukrainian crops including winter squash, sunflower, and medicinal herbs, with plans to cultivate them this spring on his New Jersey farm. Then Russia attacked his ancestral homeland.

“I realized...