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The Hindu reports on Marie Haga's lecture at the invitation of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation.

Ms. Haga, a former politician from Norway, was in Chennai on Friday to deliver the millennium lecture on ‘Feeding a growing...

Sorghum comes in a strong fifth among the world's important cereal crops – and nothing else matches its diversity of forms and uses.

A stalwart of hot and dry areas, sorghum demands few inputs and provides more than just grain in...

By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs

We use 43 muscles to frown but only 17 to smile. 89.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot. You can probably think of examples. Numbers such as these have been repeated so...

By Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

By Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs

There’s a reason why the tag line for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization is “Fiat panis,” or “Let there be bread.” Bread is more than simply a food, it’s a potent symbol...

For half the world, rice makes up 80% of every meal. Thus, it's a concern for all of us that rice is so vulnerable to the escalating impacts of natural disasters.

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami swamped more than 46,000 hectares of...

Thomson Reuters Foundation reports on the contribution of Norway to the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund.

24 September 2013, Muscat, Oman - The government of Norway has pledged $23.7 million to conserve and sustainably manage the...

MUSCAT, OMAN — A contribution from Norway today provided USD 23.7 million to conserve and sustainably manage the world’s most important food crops, citing the critical need for crop diversity at a time when populations are soaring...