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From Nettle Soup to Genebanks: Joachim von Braun on Food, Science and the Seeds of the Future
For more than four decades, Joachim von Braun has been at the forefront of understanding and improving how the world produces and shares food. As a professor at the University of Bonn, he started the Center for Development...
30 Apr 2026
Exploring What the Age of AI means for Genebanks
AI is transforming business and society. Companies are scrambling to integrate it into business models and governments are using it across departments. It is transforming workplaces and classrooms with record investment set to...
24 Apr 2026
The Alliance: Workshops to Scale Opportunity Crops
Two recent features by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT spotlight how Colombia is working to scale the potential of locally important opportunity crops – and where barriers still hold them back.
Both stories...
17 Apr 2026
Colombia Steps Up for Crop Diversity: Inside AGROSAVIA’s Work with the Power of Diversity Funding Facility
Potato, cassava, guava, passionfruit and peach palm are as Colombian as cumbia, Betty la Fea and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism. These crops are found in markets, kitchens and backyard gardens across the country,...
13 Apr 2026
CSIS: AI and Global Food Security
A new article by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) explores how AI is transforming crop breeding, describing it as a ‘force multiplier’ that can improve the pace, precision and scope of crop improvement....
7 Apr 2026
World Vegetable Center: Global Initiative for Vegetable Biodiversity Takes Root
A year ago, a small but influential group of crop diversity experts gathered at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in northern Italy to discuss a shared concern: the loss of vegetable biodiversity – and how to stop it.
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23 Mar 2026
From Rome to the World: Working Together to Protect Crop Diversity
On a spring evening in Rome, leaders interested in global food security gathered for the German Embassy’s Climate Talks to discuss the very foundation of food – crop diversity. Ambassador Andreas von Brandt, Permanent...
16 Mar 2026
Conservation and Use of Crop Diversity in the Bio-Digital Age
Co-organized workshop with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
13 Mar 2026
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