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The U.S. Drought Monitor website does not look pretty. Iowa has seen two consecutive years of drought. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says corn production decreased by 13 percent from 2011-2012 because of drought. Crop...

About a dozen representatives from Iowa’s agriculture industry joined the leaders of a global foundation in Des Moines Tuesday to discuss the group’s efforts to rescue and preserve the world’s crop varieties.

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Dr. Paula Bramel penned an editorial in the Des Moines Register on the importance of crop diversity: "Hungry world must conserve crop diversity."

Within the next 10 years, a billion more people will be living on the planet. In...

The Ames Tribune reports on the Annual Genebank Managers Meeting held in Ames, Iowa this year.

People from across the world have made their way to Ames to take part in an annual meeting talking about the future of the world’s...

Cassava isn't afraid of a changing climate

For poor farmers in the tropics, there are few upsides to climate change. Cassava, however, is set to take off under higher temperatures – if pests and diseases don't drag it down.

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Nature highlights report that finds that more than half of the wild relatives of 29 globally important crops are not adequately conserved in seed banks.

Marie Haga sits down with Gregg Borschmann, Environment Editor of RN Breakfast to discuss global crop diversity.

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To feed an extra 2 billion people by...

Scientists have agreed on a $109 million plan to strengthen the world's biggest seed banks of crops such as rice and wheat to help protect and develop new varieties resistant to climate change and other threats.

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By Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs