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GROW Webinar: Unlocking plant resources for a sustainable future: from conservation to use Dr Tiziana Ulian is a Senior Research Leader at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (U.K) where she leads the…

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…

Jane Toll: Catalyzing and Celebrating Crop Diversity In this second installment of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate Jane Toll, the woman, the collector, and the influencer behind the creation of…

Lentils: The Tiny Giants of Nutrition and Food Security Pulses, the dried edible seeds of plants in the legume family, have been a staple in diets around the world for millennia. As we approach…

How Rice Hidden by a Woman Fleeing Slavery in the 1700s Could Help Her Descendants Descendants of enslaved Africans in Suriname, known as the Saamaka Maroons, cultivated a unique rice variety which…

My Potato is Your Potato: Collective Responsibility for Crop Diversity

Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit - February 2024 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opens for the first time in 2024 to accept new seeds from the world’s genebanks.  Members of the media are…

A ‘Revolutionary’ Way to Feed the World That’s Very Old As the State Department’s global envoy for food security, Cary Fowler is working to shift U.S. foreign policy towards promoting…