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Global Seed Vault Becomes More Important Than Ever As Climate Change Threatens Crops

Global Seed Vault Becomes More Important Than Ever As Climate Change Threatens Crops When you think of fresh produce and fields of grain, the Arctic may not spring to mind. But just 800 miles from…

New seeds are being deposited at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Chill Solution for Meeting Future Demand of Sweetpotato

Chill Solution for Meeting Future Demand of Sweetpotato From Lima to Lusaka, open the menu of one of the fancier burger joints and you may well find fries made from sweetpotatoes rather than the…

Genebank staff assessing crops in field.

Rhodes Graduates Reap Benefits from Decade-Long Ties to Global Seed Vault

Rhodes Graduates Reap Benefits from Decade-Long Ties to Global Seed Vault Food security affects everyone from farmers to scientists, economists to elected officials, and nutritionists to consumers.…

Yams

The Crop Trust, along with its strategic partners, is developing conservation strategies to protect the genetic diversity of the world’s food crops. This initiative is funded by the German Federal…

GROW Webinar: Responsive Agriculture – What Do We Want From The Food System?

Presented by Patrick Stover, Director of the Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture at Texas A&M AgriLife

Change Cows' Diets, Support the Environment

Change Cows' Diets, Support the Environment When it comes to sustainability, the livestock sector has a bad reputation. One way to reduce its environmental impact is to breed better forages: the…

FAO and the EU support relocation of Ukraine’s national seed collection to a secure site

FAO and the EU support relocation of Ukraine’s national seed collection to a secure site Unique plant genetic resources have been transported over a thousand kilometres from Kharkiv to the west of…

Temperate Forages

Temperate grazing lands cover 13% of the world’s land area, including farms and rangeland systems in Russia, Europe, China and North America in the northern hemisphere, and South America, southern…

Finger Millet Breeding Gets A Boost In East Africa

Finger Millet Breeding Gets A Boost In East Africa A new three-year project holds promise to mainstream finger millet into the cropping system in Africa and improve the livelihood and nutrition…

The Power of Healthy Seeds: How Genebanks are Helping to Build a Resilient Food System

The Power of Healthy Seeds: How Genebanks are Helping to Build a Resilient Food System Every night, farmers around the world go to bed worried about their crops. Will they wake up to discover that…

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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.