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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…

Four Things That Keep A Genebank Manager Awake At Night

Four Things That Keep A Genebank Manager Awake At Night Dave Ellis, Genebank Manager at CIP in Lima, Peru, shares with our Crop Topics readers his views and concerns regarding the present state and…

Dave Ellis and Marie Haga at Parque de la Papa

France

France has a population of more than 64 million people. In 2010, the agriculture sector employed 716,000. Arable land occupies 56% of mainland French territory, but this measure has been declining…

French Polynesia

French Polynesia consists of five archipelagoes in the south-central Pacific Ocean and has a population of around 285,000. Tourism is the country’s main economic activity. Agriculture now only…

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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.