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Climate Funding to Support Pacific Seed Crops

The New Zealand government is putting NZD 10 million of its NZD 1.3 billion climate aid fund towards conserving Pacific crop seeds and researching climate-resilient varieties.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Foreign Affairs...

12 Jul 2022

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Climate Change Is Shifting How Plants Evolve. Seed Banks May Have to Adapt, Too

The ancestor of your stir-fry might be growing closer than you think. Wild field mustard, or Brassica rapa, is an unassuming plant that reaches a couple of feet tall and produces clusters of small, yellow flowers perched atop...

7 Jul 2022

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Support for National Genebanks Underway

Seeds maintained in genebanks worldwide are the foundation of our future food and nutrition security.

16 Jun 2022

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Sir Peter Crane's Reflections on the Last Year

After three years as Chair of the Executive Board of the Crop Trust, Sir Peter Crane is retiring and Catherine Bertini, a World Food Prize Laureate, will assume leadership. In his final letter in the Crop Trust annual report,...

14 Jun 2022

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The Race Against Time To Breed a Wheat To Survive the Climate Crisis

Scientists are testing forgotten wheat varieties from across the world to find those with heat- and drought-tolerant traits.

12 Jun 2022

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault Seed Collection Continues to Blossom

Two genebanks joined the growing number of depositors to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week and varieties of rice bean, lablab and yard-long bean from an Indigenous community were safely backed up for the first time.

In...

10 Jun 2022

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Midnight Sun Shines on Latest Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit

19,391 seed samples from 11 genebanks will be added Largest deposit will be made by the World Vegetable Center, including seeds from Indigenous communities Spain and Lithuania depositing seeds for first time More than 1.1...

9 Jun 2022

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