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The Steve and Riea Lainoff Crop Trust Fellowship in Honor of Cary Fowler has been supporting exceptional students at Rhodes College to pursue their interest in global affairs and conservation for a decade. 

Since 2012, one...

The National Genetic Resources Center (NGRC) in Yemen is the first genebank to receive funds from the new Emergency Reserve for genebanks facing urgent threats to their precious collections of crop diversity.

The Emergency...

A new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat named Jabal, which means “mountain” in local Arabic, developed together by farmers and scientists in a decades-long project, has been released for cultivation in Morocco.

The new...

Crop diversity – without which we cannot adapt to the climate crisis, improve livelihoods and feed everyone adequately – was highlighted at the recent Global Landscapes Forum’s (GLF) Climate event. What can we do to protect it?

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The UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, began on Tuesday in Montreal, Canada, where negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, due by human activity.

The conference is...