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The Australian reports on the importance of crop diversity.

PROTECTING the diversity of the world's crops is "fundamental" for ensuring food security in the face of climate change, experts warn.

GOVERNMENTS, businesses,...

Marie Haga was interviewed for a radio broadcast of PM for ABC News Australia. Listen in:

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DAVID MARK: As world leaders meet in New York to discuss...

In August 2014, Rachel Kyte penned an editorial in Scientific American on the importance of crop diversity to help our agriculture adapt to climatic changes.

News out of Harvard suggests that not only will climate change affect...

Grist Online reports on report on Crop Wild Relatives: "Wild thing, I think I need you: How weeds could save dinner"

Who needs weeds? In a climate-changed world, we all do.

Wild relatives of potatoes, peas, eggplants, and...

Every year farmers grow around $150 billion worth of wheat, providing 23% of the calories we live on. But some years it all goes wrong.

2010 was a bad year for wheat: a heat wave in Russia, cold weather in Canada, drought in China...

A box containing 25 accessions of pigeon pea marks first-ever seed deposit from India to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

In April 2014, India made its first seed deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault with one box of 25...

Valencia, Spain (15-16 May 2014) – Why eggplants? Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important vegetable crop, especially in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. According to FAO statistics, eggplant ranks 6th, after...

NEW AUSTRALIAN SEED DEPOSIT

Indigenous crop wild relatives, brassica, oats among seeds that find safe haven in Svalbard Global Seed Vault

It is cold and white outside. The wind blows snowflakes sideways. But the members of the...