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Darwin Initiative: Sweetpotato Project Strengthens Communities
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Darwin Initiative: Sweetpotato Project Strengthens Communities

The Crop Trust is coordinating the Sweetpotato, a model for food security and long-term conservation of biodiversity project. The Sweetpotato project is featured in the Darwin Initiative’s latest newsletter, Local Learnings from...

13 Dec 2024

GeRRI staff. Credit: Crop Trust/Luis Salazar
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The Guardian: Not Just A Museum

A recent article by The Guardian underscores the important role of national genebanks in supporting farmers to adapt to climate challenges. Focusing on the Genetic Resources Research Institute (GeRRI) in Kenya, the piece explores...

31 Oct 2024

Seeds from Palestine are carried into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Seed Vault provides a safe haven, supporting global initiatives to preserve crop diversity against climate threats and geopolitical challenges. Credit: Jonatan Jacobson/NordGen
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The New York Times: The World’s Doomsday Plant Vault Gets Thousands of New Seeds

The world’s seed savers are racing to safeguard the world’s crop diversity in “the world’s doomsday garden shed,” writes Amelia Nierenberg in her The New York Times report of the final 2024 depositor event at the Svalbard Global...

29 Oct 2024

IRRI Launches New IRG Collection to Accelerate Linking Trait Discovery with Breeding
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IRRI Launches New IRG Collection to Accelerate Linking Trait Discovery with Breeding

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has introduced a new Released Variety Panel (RVP), a collection of over 130 sequenced rice varieties. This panel is accessible to breeders and researchers for trait discovery and...

8 Oct 2024

El País: Wild Wheat - The Key to Food Security in a Warming World
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El País: Wild Wheat - The Key to Food Security in a Warming World

Farmers have saved a billion liters of fungicide through disease-resistant wheat varieties, which owe their resilience to genes from wild relatives. However, climate change and evolving pathogens require further research into...

30 Sep 2024

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Devex: How Genebanks Act as Guardians Against Climate Uncertainty

Biodiversity loss, climate change, and food insecurity are daunting, interconnected challenges that can seem insurmountable. As record-breaking temperatures persist and climate change escalates, the myriad solutions proposed often...

11 Jun 2024

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How Changing Diets Leave Us Exposed to War, Extreme Weather and Market Turbulence

The convergence of global diets means just three crops provide 50% of the world’s calories. When shocks come, they hurt.

Bagels in New York. Cakes in Beijing. Instant noodles in Jakarta. Daily habits for billions, yet just a...

21 Dec 2022

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‘Without Nature, We Have Nothing’: Un Chief Sounds Alarm at Key Un Biodiversity Event

The UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, began on Tuesday in Montreal, Canada, where negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, due by human activity.

The conference is...

6 Dec 2022

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