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Dan Collyns | The Guardian

With a climate changing faster than most crops can adapt and food security under threat around the world, scientists have found hope in a living museum dedicated to a staple eaten by millions daily: the...

Emily Payne | Food Tank

“California has nothing on us,” Chef Ian Boden, Owner of The Shack in Staunton, Virginia, tells Food Tank. “Except 70-degree weather 10 months out of the year.”

Boden is cooking in The Shack’s intimate,...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

In the end, it proved a bridge too far. Delegates at the eighth session of the Governing Body of the Plant Treaty in Rome last week were not able to agree on a package of measures to enhance the...

Coffee Expert Provides Update on Strategic Review of International Coffee Collection

For 70 years, the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica has been conserving coffee diversity. The...

This fall, Food Tank and the Crop Trust traveled throughout Appalachia to highlight and celebrate its unique food cultures and agricultural diversity. As part of a multi-year, multi-country #CropsInColor campaign, we focused on...

Hunting for Drought Tolerance in Papua New Guinea

Bananas were first domesticated in Southeast Asia, sometime between 5,000 and 8,000 BCE. They have since spread widely around the world. India alone consumes a quarter of the...

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...