March 5, 2024
La COP16: ¿la agricultura contribuye a la biodiversidad?
August 30, 2022
How do quality seed systems impact food and nutrition security?
May 9, 2022
Call to action for fit-for-purpose and resilient native tree seed systems that meet global forest and landscape restoration targets during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
October 20, 2021
Crop diversity is needed today for tomorrow’s food security and nutrition - Science can help mitigate, stem, and reverse loss of genetic diversity, for better productivity, resilience, and adaptive capacity in agriculture, a new study shows
July 8, 2021
Community seed banks as seed producers: Cases from India, Nepal, Uganda and Zimbabwe
April 23, 2021
Researchers lobby for seed banks to ensure diversity, food security
November 2, 2020
What digital revolution? Hundreds of millions of farmers still cannot get online
September 21, 2020
Farmer knowledge is key to finding more resilient crops in climate crisis - A warming climate threatens crop diversity; the 'Seeds for Needs' approach combines farmers' knowledge of resilient crops with 'elite' varieties identified by scientists
August 31, 2020
Eating your vegetables is easier said than done - The landmark EAT-Lancet report on food in the Anthropocene sets ambitious targets; putting it into action, however, will require policymakers to make sustainable food systems a top-level priority; a new article charts a path forward
June 11, 2020
An essential sustainable farming practice faces one big limitation: Land to produce seeds
Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine
June 27, 2019
World not prepared for next plant health emergency, scientists warn
Urgent need for a global surveillance system to detect and halt spread of emergent plant health threats
The world needs a global system to detect and halt the spread of emerging crop diseases
January 24, 2019
Le roi des fèves - Grâce à des années de collecte de spécimens de haricots issus du monde entier, un ingénieur a constitué, en Colombie, une gigantesque banque de semences (Courrier international)
June 9, 2016
'Foreign' crops dominate national food consumption and farming practices worldwide - Nearly 70 percent of the crops contributing calories, fat, and protein in a country's diet historically originate elsewhere, new study shows
January 20, 2016
New study finds most African smallholder farmers actively shopping for seeds, but mainly through local ‘informal’ markets largely ignored by seed initiatives - Extensive survey raises red flag for reliance on formal markets to deliver critical crop varieties, while also refuting assumption that most farmers rely on saved seed
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