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Tim Fischer’s Contribution and the Ongoing Challenges Securing the world’s crop diversity is a global concern and a prerequisite for future food and nutrition security. Both crop diversity…

Tim Fischer Finds Aussie Meat Pie in Germany 7 November 2017 - the Weekly Times covers the visit of Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer, to Bonn for our Executive Board Meetings. Tim…

Three Key Takeaways from Food Forever: Climate-proofing our Food For Future Generations Crop diversity – without which we cannot adapt to the climate crisis, improve livelihoods and feed everyone…

Threatened Wild Sunflowers   The line of cars was so thick that Hill County farmer Rodney Schronk couldn’t get into his field of sunflowers. Hordes of rubber-neckers stopped along Interstate…

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…

This is how the Ukrainian Seeds Were Saved Earlier this year, a secret operation involving scientists and technicians successfully moved a collection of 51,004 Ukrainian seed varieties from Kharkiv…

This Crazy World Luigi Guarino What you – and they – are looking at is a small fraction of the world’s largest collection of bean diversity. You can admire it, like these guys are doing, at the…

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They’re Back: GROW Webinars for the Genebank Community Genebank Resources on the Web (GROW) webinars are relaunching through a partnership between the Crop Trust and CGIAR to continue…

Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.