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2022: A Year with Two Sides
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2022 has been a year with two different sides.
On the one hand, the world is ramping up its efforts in fighting climate change. With the world gradually opening up following the challenges of...
11 Jul 2023
A Conversation with Chocolate’s Noah
The origins of chocolate can be traced back to ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, who revered chocolate as the "Food of the Gods." They incorporated it into their sacred rituals and celebrated its medicinal properties.
Today,...
7 Jul 2023
10th Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
The Tenth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (GB-10) will be held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Rome, Italy, from 20 to 24...
5 Jul 2023
20 Nov 2023 - 24 Nov 2023
19th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
The 19th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will be held at FAO headquarters in Rome from 17 to 21 July 2023. The meeting will open on Monday, 17 July 2023 at 10:00 hours. The Session...
5 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 - 23 Jul 2023
Reflecting on 2022
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At the beginning of 2022, many of us expected this to be a year when life began to return to normal after the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. But while we have gradually begun to return to...
3 Jul 2023
Spicing Up Diets and Livelihoods with Peppers
What behaves like a chameleon, comes in 50 shades of red, green, orange, yellow and even purple, and gets sweeter with age?
It may sound like a creature from a fairy tale, but the real world of plants has an answer all of its...
20 Jun 2023
BOLDly Regenerating Crop Diversity in Nigeria
Reducing risks to genebanks in Nigeria and Benin is one of the objectives of the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) project.
When the lights went out during the launch ceremony of the BOLD...
20 Jun 2023
Five Recipes to Make in Celebration of Sustainable Gastronomy Day
On Sustainable Gastronomy Day, the Crop Trust has linked up with its partners from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to cook up a menu of dishes based on beans and millets.
Sustainable gastronomy takes into...
18 Jun 2023
Safeguarding Ethiopian Wheat and Other Centuries-old Landraces in Svalbard
Last week, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) deposited seeds of traditional landraces of durum wheat, wild lentil and other crops on the frozen shelves in the depths of the Svalbard...
13 Jun 2023