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NACGRAB and Crop Trust Intensify Efforts on Using Resilient Seeds to Tackle Climate Change
THE National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB) and Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) are intesifying efforts on the adoption of resilient seeds by farmers to tackle climate change and ensure food...
1 Mar 2022
Feeding the World with Agricultural Science: Vania Azevedo
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
Vania Azevedo has...
1 Mar 2022
From Asking ‘Why?’ to Conducting Climate Research: Sophia Lüttringhaus
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
Sophia Lüttringhaus...
25 Feb 2022
Inclusion as a Woman in Science: Melinda Smale
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
Melinda Smale was...
18 Feb 2022
Crop Trust Remembers Executive Board Member Barbara Wells
All of us at the Crop Trust are deeply saddened by the sudden death of our Executive Board Member Barbara Wells.
Barbara was CGIAR’s Global Director of Genetic Innovation and Director General of the International Potato Center...
17 Feb 2022
Take a Look Inside the Latest Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors for the first seed deposit of 2022 this week.
10 genebanks from around the world deposited 39 boxes containing 20,443 seed samples, bringing the Seed Vault’s total seed count to...
15 Feb 2022
From a Childhood on a Farm to an Agricultural Scientist: Paula Bramel
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
More women are pursuing...
4 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Ahead of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, and up to International Women’s Day on March 8, we’ll be releasing interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists once a week.
Hear from them in...
3 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 - 8 Mar 2022
Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet
The world’s farmers urgently need new crop varieties that are resilient to such results of climate change as droughts and outbreaks of new pests and diseases.
A team led by Jaime Prohens at the Universitat Politècnica de València...
30 Jan 2022
30 Jan 2022