New FAO Report Checks Up on the Health of Crop Diversity Conservation
Nobody much likes writing long reports. Or indeed reading them.
But when the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launches the Third Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA),...
25 Mar 2025
Taking Stock of 2022
As 2022 draws to a close, it is once again time to reflect on the achievements and lessons of the past year as we dare to look to the future with optimism and hope.
Before the year was over, we received another vivid—and perhaps...
20 Dec 2022
Africa’s Food Security Depends on Nature’s Revival
“Prepare now for the solutions of tomorrow” is a Congolese proverb that could easily serve as a motto for a global community facing the ever-growing challenge of food insecurity in the Global South.
Yet this simple concept is...
16 Dec 2022
Thoughts on the Inaugural International Day of Plant Health
I suspect that the well-being of plants is not much on people’s minds these days. Did you know that 2020 was the International Year of Plant Health, for example? We have had other things to worry about, after all. But plants do...
11 May 2022
Plants in Print
It’s not very often that books with state-of-the art information on plant genetic resources come out, so when one does, it’s worth celebrating, and not just because I happen to have contributed to it.
Plant Genetic Resources: A...
14 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021