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How this Arctic Vault Could Provide the Food of the Future The Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores duplicate copies of most of the crop diversity in the world. As part of the Our Planet Project, a…

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…

How Peru's Potato Museum Could Stave Off World Food Crisis Dan Collyns | The Guardian With a climate changing faster than most crops can adapt and food security under threat around the world,…

How Much Do Countries Benefit From One Another’s Crop Diversity? Bananas originated in South and Southeast Asia, and are now produced throughout the world’s tropics and eaten in at least 192…

How Fiery Desert Chilis Can Protect Us from Climate Change A landscape of thorny agaves, cacti, mesquite trees, and rock is not the first place one might imagine searching for the future of food. How…

How Does a Toxic Grasspea Save Lives? Dr. Haileyesus Getahun was traveling in the remote north of his native Ethiopia when he encountered a painful sight. After cruising over a beautiful but arid…

How Do We Estimate the Consequences of Global Inaction on Genetic Diversity Conservation, Exchange, and Use? By Luigi Guarino, David Spielman, and Keith Wiebe Target 2.5 of the Sustainable…

How Digital Tools Help Us Conserve the World’s Seeds — and Use Them Imagine a library filled with millions of books. Some are decades old, while others are newly published. People can access these…

How Changing Diets Leave Us Exposed to War, Extreme Weather and Market Turbulence The convergence of global diets means just three crops provide 50% of the world’s calories. When shocks come, they…