In the Media

Securing the world’s crop diversity is a global concern and a prerequisite for future food and nutrition security. Both crop diversity conservation and food and nutrition security were a passion (amongst many others) of The Hon...

Just as the colorful mosaic of banchan dishes enhances a dinner table, Korean – and global – food security is enhanced by crop diversity. Dishes such as kimchi, bibimbap and japchae all contain crops that originated in far-away...

Food security and the development of a strategy to conserve germplasm of great importance for Mesoamerican agriculture is the main interest that leads CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) and the Crop...

Unique plant genetic resources have been transported over a thousand kilometres from Kharkiv to the west of Ukraine.

To conserve Ukraine’s agricultural heritage, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the...

A new three-year project holds promise to mainstream finger millet into the cropping system in Africa and improve the livelihood and nutrition security of smallholder farmers in Africa and worldwide. The project was launched last...

When you think of fresh produce and fields of grain, the Arctic may not spring to mind. But just 800 miles from the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds emergency stockpiles of most of the world's crops.

It provides...

Food security affects everyone from farmers to scientists, economists to elected officials, and nutritionists to consumers. In a snow-capped mountain located between mainland Norway and the North Pole is the Svalbard Global Seed...

An international collaboration of world-leading scientists led by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), and supported by the Crop Trust, has delivered six new durum wheat and barley...

Buried in Arctic permafrost, the collection safeguards the world’s crop species – and is a magnet for conspiracy theories. Now the public can take a look around.