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As he points to a white shelf that holds bean seeds, Austrian biologist Peter Wenzl explains that one of them, obtained in Ecuador, provided a gene for the discovery that major seed protein arcelin offers resistance to the bean...

A foreign conflict has exposed Africa’s dependence on imports and is galvanising action to boost local food production and tackle climate threats.

After more than a decade of adapting our agriculture to climate change, the pioneering Crop Wild Relatives Project came to an end. Here's a look back at this global initiative.

Diversity can be found in the produce aisle at your local grocery store. It’s on your dining table, it’s growing in the pot on your balcony or in your backyard. You don’t have to be a farmer, a genebank manager or a restaurant...

Chefs have the opportunity to make a difference in our food systems by getting people interested in diverse dishes and how they make them. They can challenge our palates, inspire what we put on our plates, all by supporting local...

Genebanks, or seed banks, are like active safety deposit boxes for the world’s crop diversity. Much like you store your money in a bank and withdraw it to pay bills, genebanks protect seeds for the long-term. This material is then...

For millennia, farmers have domesticated, selected and exchanged plants, making them the ultimate stewards of the world’s crop diversity. But the current climate crisis has left farmers facing new, urgent challenges (increased...