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How Digital Technology is Transforming Genebank Management Across Africa
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How Digital Technology is Transforming Genebank Management Across Africa

In a genebank outside Nairobi, a technician scans a barcode label on a seed envelope. Instantly, a screen fills with data – where the seed was collected, when it was last tested and whether it has duplicates safely stored...

12 Dec 2025

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT: Gap Analysis
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The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT: Gap Analysis

In times of climate crisis and accelerated biodiversity loss, genetic conservation is an investment in resilience. Every seed stored in a genebank represents a possibility for adaptation for future generations. Unfortunately,...

11 Dec 2025

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Five Ways Africa’s Opportunity Crops Can Shape the Future of Food

Africa’s population is set to double by 2050, with cities absorbing most of that growth. At the same time, diets are changing, climate shocks are intensifying and policies still favor a few major crops. Against this backdrop,...

9 Dec 2025

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A BOLD Attempt to Adapt Barley to the Most Remote Regions of Tunisia

With temperatures rising and rainfall becoming scarcer in Tunisia, more farmers will turn to drought-tolerant barley to sustain both their households and their herds.

A hailstorm swept across Tunisia’s Kef region and wiped out an...

5 Dec 2025

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El País: The secret journey of one of Ukraine’s treasures: Its seed bank

Scientists and technicians complete the objective of protecting seeds threatened by the war in a cold storage facility at an undisclosed location in the west of the country. The material may one day play a fundamental role in food...

3 Dec 2025

International Partners Launch Immersive Exhibition at GB-11 in Peru
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International Partners Launch Immersive Exhibition at GB-11 in Peru

The exhibition, “An Immersive Journey of Seeds: The Infinite Loop and Seeds of Peru,” opened alongside the Eleventh Session of the Governing Body of the International Plant Treaty (GB-11).

“As climate pressures and biodiversity...

27 Nov 2025

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Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants Launches in Lima to Safeguard Edible Biodiversity

Global leaders in food security, biodiversity conservation, and gastronomy innovation gathered in Lima to launch the Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants (GCCFP) ahead of the Eleventh Session of the Governing Body...

25 Nov 2025

11th Session of the Governing Body
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11th Session of the Governing Body

Fostering Biodiversity and Food Security: Preserving Heritage, Cultivating a Shared Future.

24 Nov 2025

24 Nov 2025 - 29 Nov 2025

A highlight of Crop Diversity Day 2025 was the first deposit into CIP’s new cryopreservation facility – the Cryo Vault – the first of its kind in South America. Photo: Andres Carvajal/IISD Earth Negotiation Bulletin
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Together for the Future of Food: Crop Diversity Day 2025

On 21 November, experts and leaders from all over the world gathered in Lima, Peru, for Crop Diversity Day 2025. This milestone event, co-hosted by the Crop Trust, the Plant Treaty Secretariat and the International Potato Centre...

24 Nov 2025

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