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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…

Barley: A Story of Strength

This baseline questionnaire was prepared to help assess a genebank's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

Battling Biotic Stress in Farmers' Fields Crops are often threatened by a range of unfriendly organisms, including various kinds of bacteria, fungi, insects and weeds. These plant predators hamper…

BBC Earth: Wild Food Crop Relatives to be 'Rescued' Scientists have announced a plan to collect and store the wild plant relatives of essential food crops, including wheat, rice, and potatoes. The…

BBC Mundo: Plantan Semillas de 50 Años de Antigüedad BBC Mundo reports on the recent grant by the Crop Trust to save the collection at CATIE. Variedades únicas de café, tomate, chile, frijol, maíz y…

West Africa business journalist, Nkechi Ogbonna from BBC News, reports on the recent deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

BBC News: Go Wild to Protect Food Security, Says Study Recent BBC article, titled "Go Wild to Protect Food Security" says that the answers to future food security may be found in the wild…

BBC: Forest Tree Seeds Arrive at Svalbard's 'Doomsday Vault' BBC's Mark Kinver reports on the recent deposit of forest tree seeds and more to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Svalbard "doomsday"…

BBC: How Crops Are Being Disaster-proofed Christine Ro,Technology Reporter for the BBC, writes about the strategies scientists are using to disaster-proof crops against diseases and climate…