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Nearly 70% of the crops contributing calories, fat, and protein in a country’s diet historically originate elsewhere, new study shows

LONDON - 8 JUNE 2016 — The origins of over two-thirds of the grains, legumes,...

The Crop Wild Relatives Project goal is to collect many of the most important species of crop wild relatives, ensure their long-term conservation and facilitate their use in breeding new, improved crops. This is ten-year project...

New newsletter, "Forages for the Future," published today!

After a group of forage and genebank experts came together in Bonn, Germany, last year to start a new forage movement, there was recognition that more actions can be...

New international agreements on sustainable development and biodiversity conservation explicitly prioritize fully safeguarding the genetic diversity of crops and their wild relatives as well as domesticated animals by 2020.

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Recent Le Monde article, titled 'Au Svalbard, dans la Chambre-forte des semences,' gives readers an inside look at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and explores the importance of conserving crop diversity in the midst of an...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

The Pledging Conference has taken us one step closer to our final goal: assuring the world safeguards and has access to the crop diversity we need to feed ourselves today, and hopefully feed our progeny...

Recent Washington Post article, titled "Why the world is storing so many seeds in a ‘doomsday’ vault" sheds some light on why conserving seeds is so critically important not only in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault but in genebanks...

A recent report in Yale Environment 360, titled "Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds" says that the world’s genebanks may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions like...