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
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
Landrace Conservation Offers Hope in Race to Collect Crop Diversity
A new global analysis is a big step in assessing the maintained diversity of landraces within 25 major crops in the genebanks worldwide.
9 May 2022