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November 28, 2024


Cultivating collaboration: Engaging the food processing industry on global action for crop diversity


November 12, 2024


The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank - During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger (The Guardian)


November 11, 2024


COP16 recap: new fund, indigenous rights and Colombia’s Treaty step


November 1, 2024


This year's World Food Prize underscores the value of seed banks and their stewards (Iowa Public Radio)


October 31, 2024


Value of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) in global genomics research must be heard at COP16


October 30, 2024


The genetic revolution can support food security, tackle the climate crisis and protect biodiversity - At World Food Prize 2024, FAO Director-General champions ways science and innovation can contribute to transforming agrifood systems and bring people and cultures closer together


October 9, 2024


European project "Pro-Wild" to protect and promote crop wild relatives launched
Lancement du projet européen Pro-Wild : protéger et promouvoir les espèces sauvages apparentées aux plantes cultivées


August 23, 2024


The generational impact of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault


July 29, 2024


Possible future crop wild relatives reserves? Inventories in Denmark and Åland show areas rich in valuable genetic resources


July 26, 2024


Pollen banking is a critical need for conserving plant diversity (Nature)


July 9, 2024


Política pública fortalece a conservação e o uso de recursos genéticos para alimentação e agropecuária no Brasil


July 1, 2024


Biodiversity: a heritage of seeds to preserve


20 years of saving and sharing the seeds that feed the world: A conversation with International Treaty Secretary Kent Nnadozie


June 27, 2024


The A.E. Watkins landrace collection of bread wheat: Who was AE Watkins?


‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits - Historic traits could make modern wheat more resilient to disease and other stressors (Science)


June 13, 2024


Safeguarding Africa’s diverse food crop seed collections against climate threats (The Africa Report)


May 31, 2024


ICAR's big contribution to Goa's rice heritage - Geneticists at ICAR-Goa discuss the challenges of preserving and improving Goa's rice varieties (Gomantak Times)


May 21, 2024


World Biodiversity Day on 22 May - Directed boosting of crop diversity is at reach - New EU legislation on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) may make it possible for breeders to boost crop biodiversity


May 8, 2024


Life insurance for fenebanks - Genebanks are generally safe, but they are not invulnerable.


April 24, 2024


Mainstreaming crop diversity: BBC journalist Dan Saladino tells the stories that really matter


April 22, 2024


Risky business: Safeguarding crop diversity in genebanks


April 10, 2024


In this installment of its Seed Heroes series, The Crop Trust salutes the Irish scientist Erna Bennett, whose unheeded calls in the 1960s to halt the rapid decline of crop genetic diversity are echoed in today’s global drive to save plant species from extinction


March 11, 2024


Seed banks: A last line of defense against the erosion of agricultural biodiversity
Saatgutbanken – eine letzte Verteidigungslinie gegen die Erosion der landwirtschaftlichen Artenvielfalt


March 8, 2024


Collaboration between private and public genebanks in conserving and using plant genetic resources


March 5, 2024


La COP16: ¿la agricultura contribuye a la biodiversidad?


February 9, 2024


Jane Toll: catalyzing and celebrating crop diversity - Celebrat Jane Toll, the woman, the collector, and the influencer behind the creation of the Crop Trust, which this year celebrates its 20 anniversaty


January 30, 2024


How fice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help Her descendants


January 22, 2024


The California Native Seed Strategy is crucial to the state's climate resilience


January 18, 2024


Taking diversity out of the genebank and into farmers’ fields in Ghana


January 12, 2024


Nikolai Vavilov, the father of genebanks


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