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Geoffrey Hawtin: Crop Diversity Pioneer Who Won the World Food Prize In this instalment of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate the work of Geoffrey Hawtin OBE, a co-recipient of the 2024 World Food

Crop Diversity: A Tasty Way for Keeping Our Options Open On 19 September, scientists, policymakers and other crop diversity enthusiasts, flocked to Mindspace in Williamsburg, one of Brooklyn’s

… we, the eaters, won’t buy. That’s why I introduce…

Interview with Nikolay Dzubenko, Director of VIR To celebrate the 130th anniversary of Vavilov, I interviewed Nikolay Dzubenko, Director of the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources

… their mission. Accountability; accuracy;…

A Homecoming for Rice AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Côte d’Ivoire, more than a decade after the center re-located to Benin during a civil war. But first, all its rice

Pre-Breeding Work With Grasspea and Finger Millet Gets a Boost Two food crops prized for their nutritional value and ability to survive temperature extremes, drought and poor soil are now receiving

Hari Upadhyaya: The Fearless Breeder in the Genebank Hari Upadhyaya is the recipient of a Crop Trust Legacy Award. Read on to learn more about this inspiring scientist. As a young man growing up

Durum Wheat Pre-Breeding for Food Security Durum wheat is the tenth most important food crop in the world. It is often referred to as the “Biblical crop”. Its ancient domestication was linked to

Selection by Stone Abdellah Bounagua clutched the stone tightly in his weathered hands. With it, he could cast one vote. The durum wheat farmer from Marchouch in northern Morocco wanted to make sure