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From a Childhood on a Farm to an Agricultural Scientist: Paula Bramel This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with

Crop Trust Project Grievance Mechanism This policy sets out how external stakeholders can raise concerns or grievances related to Crop Trust-funded projects or activities. It explains the process

Building a Toolbox of Sorghum Diversity The wild, weedy relatives of our cultivated crops display all kinds of useful traits their domesticated cousins lack – traits that could make our agriculture

Farmers in Mali Go Wild for Sorghum Moïse Mounkoro held three cards in his hand – one red, one yellow and one white. He felt like he was the football umpire in his local village of Sokoro in east

Genebanks store genes. Not literally, although there are some specialized genebanks that do manage genes – the actual bits of DNA that give living things their distinct characteristics.

Urgent Action Needed as Farmer Varieties Disappear from Use A team of genebank specialists recently reviewed national crop genebanks in Uganda and Tanzania as part of the Biodiversity for

How Peru's Potato Museum Could Stave Off World Food Crisis Dan Collyns | The Guardian With a climate changing faster than most crops can adapt and food security under threat around the world,

Ninth Session of the Governing Body The Ninth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) will address items on general