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Call for Action: Secure the Financing of Genebanks to Strengthen Resilient, Productive, Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems
SEVILLE, SPAIN, 03 July 2025 – The UN Conference on Finance for Development in Seville 2025 brings governments, international financial institutions and development actors together at a critical moment. It aims to align financial...
3 Jul 2025
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Seed Sorting: From Harvest to Genebank
Keeping up with the demand for rice seeds: The automation of seed sorting at the International Rice Genebank
To an untrained eye, all sheep in a paddock look alike. But shepherds can call all the sheep in their flock by name and...
11 Jun 2019
David Ellis: Finding the Balance Between Manager and Scientist
Recipient of the inaugural Crop Trust Legacy Award David Ellis was once asked how to prepare for a career as a genebank scientist. “There’s no fricking way,” he responded. “You not only have to be well grounded in science but you...
8 May 2019
A Homecoming for Rice
AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Côte d’Ivoire, more than a decade after the center re-located to Benin during a civil war. But first, all its rice had to be sent back to Cote d’Ivoire after being...
12 Apr 2019
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