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Luigi Guarino

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.

Fighting Late Blight with Farmer-Approved, Disease-Resistant Spuds

The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity Massive rice collection to receive permanent financial backing, saving almost all known varieties of rice crops, forever  (SINGAPORE – 12 October…

The World's "Coolest" Insurance Policy Turns 10 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Ten years ago, a group of plant scientists, politicians, engineers, media and more gathered on a snow-covered mountain on…

The World Podcast: Ukraine Seed Bank Under Threat by Russian Invasion The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed lots of the country's infrastructure. Housing, roads, train stations and…

The Wonderful World of Sunflowers Think about sunflowers, and there is a good chance that Vincent van Gogh's masterful artworks will leap to mind. His series of sunflower paintings, created in the…

The Women’s Committee of Cotacachi: Guardians of the Chakras This edition of our Seed Heroes series is about the Women’s Committee of UNORCAC in Ecuador, who safeguard crop diversity, promote…

The Women Finger Millet Advocates of Western Kenya Finger millet hardly needs an introduction in Western Kenya. The crop is native to the highlands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda and has been…