In the Media

It’s easy to take bananas for granted. Walk into any U.S. supermarket, no matter how poorly stocked, and there they are. Bananas top the list of fresh fruit sold in this country—the average American consumes nearly 27 pounds of...

Plant scientists from across Africa and around the world deposited seeds of their most important produce in the Arctic’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault in late May in a bid to protect global food security.

An African eggplant with...

Biodiversity loss, climate change, and food insecurity are daunting, interconnected challenges that can seem insurmountable. As record-breaking temperatures persist and climate change escalates, the myriad solutions proposed often...

Christine Ro,Technology Reporter for the BBC, writes about the strategies scientists are using to disaster-proof crops against diseases and climate change.

Late blight is an old foe of humans. This disease catalysed the...

RABAT, April 20 (Reuters) - Crop Trust, which works to preserve crop bio-diversity, needs to more than double its $300 million endowment fund to be able to support seed banks across the world, Executive Director Stefan Schmitz...

Terje Solsvik reports on the recent deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for Reuters:

A frozen Arctic vault built to preserve global agricultural crops from extinction received seeds on Tuesday from the largest number of new...

Descendants of enslaved Africans in Suriname, known as the Saamaka Maroons, cultivated a unique rice variety which they hid in their hair when fleeing plantations in the 17th century. The Anne van Dijk Rice Research Center (SNRI/A...

As the State Department’s global envoy for food security, Cary Fowler is working to shift U.S. foreign policy towards promoting traditional crops like cowpeas, cassava, and millets in developing countries. He labels them...

Scientists Sarada Krishnan, Director of Programs at Crop Trust, and Hanna Neuschwander, Strategy and Communications Director of World Coffee Research, shed light on the profound impact of climate change on global coffee production...