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Companies are Looking for Ways to Protect the Plants Their Products are Made From

The number of plant species in the world is declining, and climate change is poised to reck further havoc on commodity crops. As shrinking natural...

This year the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture turns 15, and will celebrate this anniversary at the upcoming eighth session of the Governing Body (GB-8) from 11-16 November. Over 700...

The Crop Trust was founded in October 2004, with a goal to help build a global system of crop diversity conservation and use, and to fund it through an Endowment Fund that would make it a lasting reality.

This month, we are...

Emily Payne | Food Tank

“Comfort food is for cowards, that ain’t what we do here,” Chef Marion Ohlinger tells Food Tank. A 12th-generation West Virginian, Ohlinger was born and raised on his family farm and now owns Hill & Hollow...

Climate change demands a food revolution. Faced with heat, drought, pests and diseases, the crops we eat every day could become relics in a generation or less, at least where they are currently grown.

Take coffee. Right now, the...

The 33rd annual edition of the World Food Prize has been awarded to Simon N. Groot, founder of the seed company, East-West Seed. The prize is the highest honor anyone working to advance food and agriculture can receive, but in his...

Two food crops prized for their nutritional value and ability to survive temperature extremes, drought and poor soil are now receiving the attention they deserve. A new project led by the Crop Trust will help improve the...

By Luigi Guarino, David Spielman, and Keith Wiebe

Target 2.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for maintaining “the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their...

Of humanity’s essential food crops, perhaps none is less honored than Phaseolus vulgaris, labeled in both Latin and English as the “common bean”. Although it is certainly common, and ever-present in many of the world’s great...