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How do you go about finding and collecting seeds from a scraggly looking crop wild relative in a prairie or a tropical forest, when you’ve never done it before? Once you’ve collected them, how do you keep track of the seeds...

A recent summit entitled Genetic diversity for more resilient food systems looked at the urgent need of safeguarding crop diversity due to the impact of climate changes on food production. Representatives of genebanks from around...

By Stefan Schmitz, Executive  Director of Crop Trust and Tony Simons, Director General of World Agroforestry

We have all heard the figures: by 2050, the world’s population is expected to increase to nearly 10 billion, and most...

By Stefan Schmitz, Executive Director of Crop Trust and Tony Simons, Director General of World Agroforestry

This slideshow presents a brief, but wide-ranging, look at the importance of alfalfa in Chile’s Magallanes region. More specifically, it highlights how and why our partners at the Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA) are...

Genesys, the online portal for information on genebank samples, is constantly evolving. First launched in 2008, it now contains data on more than four million accessions and counting, which is over half of the estimated total...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Another day, another report telling us that the food system must change. The latest is from the U.N. Committee on World Food Security’s High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) and, although it has...

Sayanti Sengupta | seventeen goals Magazine

The world population has been growing by leaps and bounds. How do we then ensure food security for all in the face of climate extremes and crop failures? The answer lies in plant seeds-...