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Ecuador may be small in size, but it’s big in biodiversity. With landscapes that stretch from the Amazon to the Andes and even include the Galápagos Islands, this South American country is home to many plants and animals found...

As the world marks World Food Day on 16 October, the Crop Trust’s Power of Diversity Funding Facility highlights the results of national consultations with stakeholders to identify opportunity crops that boost nutrition,...

Kazakhstan releases its first drought- and heat-tolerant variety of alfalfa, one of the world’s most important feed crops.  Developed thanks to wild relatives seeds stored in local and global genebanks, the new variety...

Pumpkin spice lattes, oat milk cappuccinos, flavored cold brews – coffee trends come and go. But behind every new flavor sensation is something much deeper: the diversity of the coffee plant itself. And that diversity is under...

User Groups Offer Model to Increase Use of Crop Diversity, Study Finds

In this edition of our Seed Heroes series, we pay tribute to U.S. scientist Paula Bramel, whose research, mentorship and leadership have been instrumental in building organizations and nurturing the next generation of agriculture...

Partnership ensures farmers and breeders have lasting access to the crop’s diversity.

Bonn, Germany, 29 August 2025 – Over 35 million smallholder rice farmers across Africa stand to benefit from the agreement signed last month...

Several dozen people recently gathered in Ibadan, Nigeria to help the country face the future. They were not politicians or diplomats or economists. They were farmers, plant breeders, agricultural researchers, food industry...

In the final hours of the two-day workshop, the discussion really heated up. More than 40 stakeholders from all over Colombia had gathered at the event to select the best opportunity crops to promote out of a long list of 48....

Conservation of agrobiodiversity bolsters nations’ well-being and resilience to crises.

Our view of national and global security should expand. Certainly, it means protecting against the threat of war, terrorism and espionage...

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...

During the first few hours of daylight – before the sun gets high and it’s too hot outside – experimental fields at the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) research station in Cotonou, Benin, are buzzing with activity. Solar-powered...