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Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz joined Caitlin Welsh, Director of the Global Food Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies for an episode of Reset the Table to consider the role of crop...

Record-breaking heat waves across the globe are destroying crops, pushing up food prices and putting the food systems of many nations at risk.

In Europe, water and heat stress has pushed down crop yields, and in June, the already...

Nate Kleinman gathered seeds for Ukrainian crops including winter squash, sunflower, and medicinal herbs, with plans to cultivate them this spring on his New Jersey farm. Then Russia attacked his ancestral homeland.

“I realized...

The New Zealand government is putting NZD 10 million of its NZD 1.3 billion climate aid fund towards conserving Pacific crop seeds and researching climate-resilient varieties.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Foreign Affairs...

The ancestor of your stir-fry might be growing closer than you think. Wild field mustard, or Brassica rapa, is an unassuming plant that reaches a couple of feet tall and produces clusters of small, yellow flowers perched atop...

Scientists are testing forgotten wheat varieties from across the world to find those with heat- and drought-tolerant traits.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed lots of the country's infrastructure. Housing, roads, train stations and government buildings have been destroyed by Russia's military. Now, the country's main seed bank is under...

In underground vaults near Ukraine's battlefields, the genetic code for nearly 2,000 crops is in danger of being permanently destroyed.

The risk came into sharp focus earlier this month when a research facility near Ukraine's...

Hundreds of millions of people around the world are going hungry as food prices continue to rise as a result of everything from the coronavirus pandemic to India’s extreme heatwave to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Without meaningful...