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Food Prices Are on the Rise – And the Global South Will Be Hit Hardest

By Stefan Schmitz, published in the Independent

With the harvest in progress outside of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, a threshing team uses flat rocks to knock rice grains from freshly cut plants. Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, holds 2.4 million farms. At harvest time, the rhythm of rice threshing can be heard on most of them. While the country is most famous for exotic products like vanilla and cloves, 85% of Malagasy farmers grow rice.

Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation: Tim Fischer’s Contribution and the Ongoing Challenges

Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation: Tim Fischer’s Contribution and the Ongoing Challenges Join us for a webinar hosted by the Crop Trust and Crawford Fund as we pay tribute to the late Hon…

Food Security and Germplasm Conservation Bring Crop Trust and CATIE Together

Food Security and Germplasm Conservation Bring Crop Trust and CATIE Together Food security and the development of a strategy to conserve germplasm of great importance for Mesoamerican agriculture is…

Food Security Experts Warn of Global Hunger from Climate Change

Food Security Experts Warn of Global Hunger from Climate Change ROME, ITALY (18 November 2009)—Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate…

Food Tank: From Neglect to Nourishment - Africa’s New Plan to Revitalize Vegetable Biodiversity

Food Tank: From Neglect to Nourishment - Africa’s New Plan to Revitalize Vegetable Biodiversity A new initiative led by the World Vegetable Center aims to address hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and…

The Crop Trust team visits the World Vegetable Center

Foods that Can Beat the Heat this Summer

Foods that Can Beat the Heat this Summer Summers are getting hotter year on year. Parts of Europe and North America experienced record-breaking high temperatures in June and July 2022 with the U.K.…

Forages for the Future, Issue 4

Forages for the Future, Issue 4 Forages for the Future, Issue 4 is now available! In this newsletter, Forage scientists, Bruce Pengelly and Brigitte Maass, discuss priorities for 2017…

Forages: Key to Climate-resilient Livestock Systems

Forages: Key to Climate-resilient Livestock Systems More than a billion smallholders depend on their livestock for food and livelihoods, and their livestock depend on a year-round supply of…

Sheep in a corral in Ait Bouhou, Morocco.

Forbes: Top Banana - America’s Favorite Fruit Confronts An Uncertain Future

Forbes: Top Banana - America’s Favorite Fruit Confronts An Uncertain Future It’s easy to take bananas for granted. Walk into any U.S. supermarket, no matter how poorly stocked, and there they are.…

Forward and Upward: Spirit of our GOAL Workshop in Latin America

Forward and Upward: Spirit of our GOAL Workshop in Latin America Marie Haga | Marie's Corner When you hear the word ‘quality’ what comes to mind? This was the question posed by Janny van Beem, the…

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The Crop Diversity Digest

From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.