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From ancient Peruvian popcorn to lightning-resistant beech trees, Jonathan Drori has a knack for uncovering the surprising ways plants shape human history and culture. A former BBC filmmaker and trustee of Kew Gardens, Drori is...

Several dozen people recently gathered in Ibadan, Nigeria to help the country face the future. They were not politicians or diplomats or economists. They were farmers, plant breeders, agricultural researchers, food industry...

In December 2023, the civil war that had broken out the previous April between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took a troubling turn when the paramilitary group seized the country’s...

In the final hours of the two-day workshop, the discussion really heated up. More than 40 stakeholders from all over Colombia had gathered at the event to select the best opportunity crops to promote out of a long list of 48....

Michael Pollan’s best-selling books and films raise awareness about where food in Western diets comes from, and why eating “real” food from diverse crops is so important.

Few writers have changed the way we think about food quite...

Conservation of agrobiodiversity bolsters nations’ well-being and resilience to crises.

Our view of national and global security should expand. Certainly, it means protecting against the threat of war, terrorism and espionage...

SEVILLE, SPAIN, 03 July 2025  – The UN Conference on Finance for Development in Seville 2025 brings governments, international financial institutions and development actors together at a critical moment. It aims to align financial...