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Bart Panis: Cryobank Scientist With a Marathon Vision for the Future of Bananas

Bart Panis: Cryobank Scientist With a Marathon Vision for the Future of Bananas In this edition of our Seed Heroes series, we recognize Bart Panis for his pioneering work on the conservation of…

Barley: A Story of Strength

Barley: A Story of Strength

Banking on Diversity in Nigeria: A Winning Team

Banking on Diversity in Nigeria: A Winning Team With a pair of tweezers, Mary Aditiku picks up a tiny okra seed, turns it over, and puts it back in place. Her hand is steady; her movements are…

Banking on Crop Diversity for Food Security in the Face of Climate Change

Banking on Crop Diversity for Food Security in the Face of Climate Change Groundbreaking 10-year, USD 58 million project launches to secure future food security and climate resilience…

Banking on African heritage

Seeds for Resilience is a five-year project supporting collections of key crops identified by partner genebanks in five sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. In…

Man in field observing green plants.

Bangladesh

Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world with a population of over 156 million. Due to Bangladesh’s heavy dependence on agriculture, rural farmworkers face seasonal…

Bananas, Bruised but Not Beaten

Bananas, Bruised but Not Beaten At least 1,000 hectares of banana farms in Southern Mindanao have been destroyed so far by Fusarium, a disease with no known cure that organic farming advocates said…

Pile of yellow and green bananas

Backing Up Brazil’s Future Food and Nutrition Security

Backing Up Brazil’s Future Food and Nutrition Security

Background

We must urgently transform our agrifood systems if we are to resolve the linked, overlapping crises of food and nutrition insecurity, climate change, and loss of biodiversity that humanity faces.…

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan has a population of more than 9 million people. The agriculture and food sector in Azerbaijan has seen a sharp decline from 20% of gross national product in 2001 to less than 6% in 2014. …

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