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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

Forbes: Top Banana - America’s Favorite Fruit Confronts An Uncertain Future
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Forbes: Top Banana - America’s Favorite Fruit Confronts An Uncertain Future

It’s easy to take bananas for granted. Walk into any U.S. supermarket, no matter how poorly stocked, and there they are. Bananas top the list of fresh fruit sold in this country—the average American consumes nearly 27 pounds of...

3 Jul 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

BBC: How Crops Are Being Disaster-proofed
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BBC: How Crops Are Being Disaster-proofed

Christine Ro,Technology Reporter for the BBC, writes about the strategies scientists are using to disaster-proof crops against diseases and climate change.

Late blight is an old foe of humans. This disease catalysed the...

14 May 2024

Climate Change's Threat to Global Coffee Production
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Climate Change's Threat to Global Coffee Production

Scientists Sarada Krishnan, Director of Programs at Crop Trust, and Hanna Neuschwander, Strategy and Communications Director of World Coffee Research, shed light on the profound impact of climate change on global coffee production...

22 Jan 2024

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Highlights of the 10th Session of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resource for Food and Agriculture Governing Body

On the November 22, 2023, delegates to the tenth session of the Governing Body (GB 10) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resource for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) considered items related to the contribution of the...

23 Nov 2023

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Is an Arctic Doomsday Vault the Answer to Climate and War-induced Food Insecurity?

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...

13 Oct 2022

The World Podcast: Ukraine Seed Bank Under Threat by Russian Invasion
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The World Podcast: Ukraine Seed Bank Under Threat by Russian Invasion

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed lots of the country's infrastructure. Housing, roads, train stations and government buildings have been destroyed by Russia's military. Now, the country's main seed bank is under...

3 Jun 2022

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