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Science Seeks Ancient Plants To Save Favourite Foods From a bowl of rice to a cup of coffee, experts say the foods we take for granted could become much scarcer unless we can make them resistant to…

Are Seeds Alive? But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids Are seeds alive? What are they made of? Here in Vermont it's planting time, and we've been getting a lot of questions about seeds from kids…

Marie Haga | Marie’s Corner

Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.

Biodiversity for Resilience: A Food Secure World Starts With You Diversity can be found in the produce aisle at your local grocery store. It’s on your dining table, it’s growing in the pot on your…

Biodiversity for Resilience: Chefs, Advocates for Biodiversity Chefs have the opportunity to make a difference in our food systems by getting people interested in diverse dishes and how they make…

Biodiversity for Resilience: Genebanks, Ensuring Resilience Genebanks, or seed banks, are like active safety deposit boxes for the world’s crop diversity. Much like you store your money in a bank…

Biodiversity for Resilience: Farmers, Dedicated Stewards of Diversity For millennia, farmers have domesticated, selected and exchanged plants, making them the ultimate stewards of the world’s crop…

Susan Bragdon | Director, Seeds for All & Policy Advisor, Oxfam Novib

Biodiversity for Resilience: We Are Diverse, We Are Resilient What makes us resilient? What enables us to overcome hardships no matter the crisis? What is our greatest strength? Diversity. In our…