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SciDev.Net: Global Network of Seed Information Takes Root Efforts to preserve and protect plant information are accelerating — but not without risks, reports Claire Provost in SciDev.Net. As an…

ENSIA: Genebanks; the Future of Agriculture As climate change makes crop diversity even more important, gene banks struggle to stay afloat. Freelance science journalist Virginia Gewin reports in…

European Seed: Why Crop Diversity Matters The fight to achieve food security and end hunger is one of the greatest challenges facing the world in the coming decades. Rising populations,…

Agriculture Facing Biggest Threat Ever Countries across the globe are working on means to combat hunger, achieve food security and promote sustainable agriculture. With United Nations (UN) also…

Daily Development: In Crops We Trust Daily Development explores “global development and the people behind it”. In the following interview, Marie Haga, the Executive Director of the Crop Trust,…

Local Solutions to a Global Challenge and How India Can Usher in Zero Hunger Professor M S Swaminathan, the Father of Green Revolution in India, writes in the New Indian Express in support of…

Conserving Crop Diversity Essential to Achieve Zero Hunger: Crop Trust Executive Director The Crop Trust's Executive Director speaks to the Indian Economic Times on the importance on global seed crop…

International Cooperation to Protect our Food Source in the Future An article by Cary Fowler on food security and the importance of rice published in Korean news in the Chosun Daily on the 7th of…

Syrian War Causes The Global Doomsday Seed Vault's First Withdrawal The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has requested the backup seed that they deposited in…

‘Faraway’ Conflicts Hit Closer to Home Than You Think (Like in Your Larder) A new study has shown that over 70 percent of the wild relatives of our domesticated food crops are…