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Hungry World Must Conserve Crop Varieties
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...
18 Sept 2013
18 Sept 2013
Ames Tribune: Crop Diversity Conference Underway in Ames
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...
16 Sept 2013
16 Sept 2013
Just Warming Up
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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27 Aug 2013
27 Aug 2013
Nature: Weeds Warrant Urgent Conservation
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.
22 Jul 2013
22 Jul 2013
RN Breakfast: Global Crop Diversity
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...
24 Jun 2013
24 Jun 2013
Reuters: World Seed Banks Get Funds to Tackle Climate, Other Threats
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.
The Global Crop...
30 Jan 2013
30 Jan 2013
Behind the Headlines
By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs
John Galsworthy quipped that headlines are generally twice the size of the events they refer to. So such examples of that artform as “Cost of Conserving Global Biodiversity Set...
16 Oct 2012
16 Oct 2012