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It is sometimes said that one crisis leads to another. There is little doubt that humanity is now facing a cascade of crises closely connected with climate change.

Small-scale farmers from developing countries produce one-third of the world’s food, yet they only receive 1.7 percent of climate finance even as they are forced to cope with droughts, floods, cyclones and other disasters.

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Countries must urgently ramp up action to adapt to the current and future impacts of climate change, as efforts now are too little and too slow, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) said in its latest report, published on Thursday.

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A vault built on an Arctic island to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes received new deposits on Wednesday - including for the first time from Iraq and Uruguay.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault...

As food supplies around the world are threatened by conflict, drought, and climate change, funding is being made available to bolster future food and nutrition security, by saving local varieties.

The Crop Trust is supporting...

At the last opening of the year, tightly packed seed packets from Iraq and Uruguay join more than 45,000 seed samples of crops from across the globe to be deposited deep inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 

A vault built on an...

45,150 seed samples from 13 genebanks added to Seed Vault The Seed Vault passes the 1.2 million seed sample mark with these new deposits Iraq and Uruguay deposit seeds for the first time CIMMYT will be the largest depositor;...