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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
December 15, 2023
Rinasce il Centro Strampelli a Rieti: il contributo del CREA - La collezione dei grani, patrimonio genetico che unisce passato, presente e futuro del grano italiano
December 5, 2023
Global crop diversity policy forum charts future
November 24, 2023
Die genetische Vielfalt der Pflanzen und ihr Beitrag zur Ernährung La diversité génétique des plantes au service de l’alimentation La diversità genetica delle piante al servizio dell’alimentazione
November 13, 2023
Seeds provide solutions to safeguarding our future - Tenth session of the Governing Body (GB-10) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to convene in Rome, Italy
November 6, 2023
Does access to biological resources by a seed company for conventional breeding amount to commercial utilisation? (Lexology)
November 3, 2023
The importance of wild plant species for food security in focus during workshop – Actions are needed to conserve the crop wild relatives
October 26, 2023
From commodification to conservation: restoring agrobiodiversity through seed breeding – Part II
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