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Jane Toll: Catalyzing and Celebrating Crop Diversity In this second installment of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate Jane Toll, the woman, the collector, and the influencer behind the creation of…

Lentils: The Tiny Giants of Nutrition and Food Security Pulses, the dried edible seeds of plants in the legume family, have been a staple in diets around the world for millennia. As we approach…

How Rice Hidden by a Woman Fleeing Slavery in the 1700s Could Help Her Descendants Descendants of enslaved Africans in Suriname, known as the Saamaka Maroons, cultivated a unique rice variety which…

My Potato is Your Potato: Collective Responsibility for Crop Diversity The rich tapestry of variation within and among crops worldwide is facing a rapid and concerning decline. Conserving crop…

Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit - February 2024 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opens for the first time in 2024 to accept new seeds from the world’s genebanks.  Members of the media are…

A ‘Revolutionary’ Way to Feed the World That’s Very Old As the State Department’s global envoy for food security, Cary Fowler is working to shift U.S. foreign policy towards promoting…

Climate Change's Threat to Global Coffee Production Scientists Sarada Krishnan, Director of Programs at Crop Trust, and Hanna Neuschwander, Strategy and Communications Director of World Coffee…

Taking Diversity out of the Genebank and into Farmers’ Fields in Ghana On the way to Manga, in Ghana’s Upper East Region, over the border the hills of southern Burkina Faso shimmer in the middle…