Reducing Poverty

Sweetpotato plays a crucial role in combating food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa. However, its genetic diversity is under threat from climate change, pests, and diseases, which could have dire consequences for millions of...

This month, Melinda Smale enters the pantheon of Seed Heroes for her influential research on the economic value of crop diversity, helping shape agricultural policies across the globe and inspiring a generation of young...

“You’ve got to think about doing big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

The words of U.S. futurist writer Alvin Toffler in the 1970s are sometimes cited in business...

By Cierra Martin, Crop Trust

This spring I had the pleasure of speaking with Simran Sethi, a journalist and educator focused on food and agriculture and author of the recently published book Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss...

A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food.

Gene banks of the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation...

At least 1,000 hectares of banana farms in Southern Mindanao have been destroyed so far by Fusarium, a disease with no known cure that organic farming advocates said was aggravated by the practice of monocropping in the region. ...

The Big Mac Index determines the purchasing power of different currencies by comparing prices of McDonald’s hamburgers in different countries, but in the Middle East, eating at global food chains is often more expensive than...