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What if one of the greatest opportunities to strengthen food security was already in farmers' fields – and in the knowledge passed from mother to daughter?

Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, women have cultivated, selected,...

What nearly one million landrace records in Genesys can, and cannot, tell us about the history of collecting missions.

For more than a century, researchers and genebank staff have travelled the world collecting crop diversity and...

Farming in much of sub-Saharan Africa is not easy. But in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia, the risks have multiplied.

Pressures vary but point in the same direction – failed rains and depleted water sources in Kenya, droughts...

Dr Peterson Wambugu is looking for seeds. He is on a collecting mission for the national genebank of Kenya, a Crop Trust Power of Diversity Funding Facility activity.

More specifically, he’s on a collecting mission to find finger...

In this edition of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate Arthur E. Watkins, the Cambridge botanist who collected wheat diversity before much of it disappeared from farmers’ fields. A century later, scientists are returning to his...

Wild grapes have been saving vineyards for hundreds of years. Now, as climate change, new pests and diseases, and changing markets place new challenges on viticulture, conserving wild grape diversity is critical for the future of...