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Potato Research in Peru (video)

Potato Research in Peru (video) In Peru, researchers are breeding drought-resistant potato varieties. They use genes from wild potato species so that cultivated potatoes can cope better with

Pre-breeding: Creating and Managing Variation

This course explains why parental selection is important and how it can be done effectively based on various types and sources of data and information. The issues associated with transferring traits

Pre-breeding: Distributing, Use and Regulatory Issues

This module addresses issues of how pre-breeding products are used, either in full-scale breeding programmes or directly by society, industry etc. Some background information on how pre-breeding

Indigenous Peoples Hold the Past and Future of Food in Their Hands

Indigenous Peoples Hold the Past and Future of Food in Their Hands Alejandro Argumedo | Food Tank August 9 was the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – a celebration of the

Cowpea: How to Make a Hardy Crop Even Tougher

Cowpea: How to Make a Hardy Crop Even Tougher The cowpea keeps millions of people fed every day—but with the climate crisis threatening production, scientists are finding ways to increase its yields

Jabal: The New Wheat Scientists Say Can Withstand Extreme Heat and Drought

Jabal: The New Wheat Scientists Say Can Withstand Extreme Heat and Drought The variety is a cross between commercial and wild wheats – bred in a bid to develop crops that are more resilient to the

A field technician for the durum wheat breeding project shows a durum wheat spike.

Behind the Headlines

Behind the Headlines By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs John Galsworthy quipped that headlines are generally twice the size of the events they refer to. So such examples of that

Iraq and Uruguay Deposit Crop Seeds at Arctic Doomsday Vault

Iraq and Uruguay Deposit Crop Seeds at Arctic Doomsday Vault At the last opening of the year, tightly packed seed packets from Iraq and Uruguay join more than 45,000 seed samples of crops from

NordGen staff carry more than 45,000 seed samples from 14 different genebanks into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault at the October 2022 deposit. (Photo: NordGen)

Is an Arctic Doomsday Vault the Answer to Climate and War-induced Food Insecurity?

Is an Arctic Doomsday Vault the Answer to Climate and War-induced Food Insecurity? A vault built on an Arctic island to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other

Seed sample deposit to Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Behind the Headlines

By Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

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The Crop Diversity Digest

From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.