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Building a Stronger Genebank Network, One Connection at a Time
In a world in which growing food demand is about the only certainty, digital tools are helping genebanks conserve and share the crop diversity that underpins our global food security.
By streamlining operations and connecting...
9 May 2025
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Brazil to Play Key Role in Global Food Security
23 March 2015, Brasilia: Landmark meeting with Global Crop Diversity Trust hosted by Embrapa takes place in Brasilia to discuss the key role that Brazil must play in food security.
Key figures from four government ministries will...
23 Mar 2015
23 Mar 2015
A Busy Month North and South
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
The 17th meeting of the Executive Board is taking place right now in Lima, Peru where we will discuss how we envisage the complete global system for conservation and availability of crop diversity, but...
16 Mar 2015
16 Mar 2015
Rich Soil With a Side of Beans
Insects invade neighborhood in Manizales
The large number of flies may be caused by improper usage of fertilizers.
According to the local people in the La Linda neighborhood of Manizales, this is not the first time they have...
20 Feb 2015
20 Feb 2015
Crop Trust Wins Video of the Day Award
The Crop Trust's brand new video, Securing Our Food, Forever, has received the video of the day award by VOTD.TV.
VOTD.TV awarded the Crop Trust and Epic Agency with the Video of the Day Award on 27 January 2015.
The video was...
18 Jan 2015
18 Jan 2015
Seeds of Time
A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food.
Gene banks of the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation...
3 Jan 2015
3 Jan 2015
Bringing Diversity Back to Maize
6,700 years ago the ancient Peruvians were eating popcorn – 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a study by the Museum of Natural History in Washington, USA.
The analysis revealed that ears found in Paredones...
9 Dec 2014
9 Dec 2014
No Such Flavor as Strawberry
This year your strawberries could be as white as the cream poured over them, after a new variety went on sale today.
The pineberry is said to combine the shape and texture of a strawberry with a flavour and smell closer to that...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
Gardens in the South Pacific Ocean
Sometimes you can find the most telling information in a newspaper not in the articles, but in the ads. A supermarket circular in the South Pacific tells its own story:
Mackerel in oil, $3.
30; 4 pound can of corned beef, $3.75;
...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
Bananas, Bruised but Not Beaten
At least 1,000 hectares of banana farms in Southern Mindanao have been destroyed so far by Fusarium, a disease with no known cure that organic farming advocates said was aggravated by the practice of monocropping in the region. ...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
Threatened Wild Sunflowers
The line of cars was so thick that Hill County farmer Rodney Schronk couldn’t get into his field of sunflowers. Hordes of rubber-neckers stopped along Interstate 35W near Hillsboro were taking photographs and walking through...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
Yam: Feast and Forest
Yet again, citizens of the region of Mahi yesterday celebrated the Feast of Yams. It was held at the Royal Palace of Savalon in the presence of a huge crowd and a group of dignitaries.
On the special day, King Tossoh Gbaguidi...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
The African Rice the World Forgot
When a pair of reporters traveled to the Nigerian town of Ofada looking for its famously delicious local rice, they were surprised to find no rice at all.
Onabiyi’s mood took a downward turn when he was asked what had happened to...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014