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Genebank Platform holds its first AGM Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Rome. Ames. Arusha. Izmir. Horsham. Meise. For the past six years, the managers of some of the world’s most important collections…

Calling All Coffee Lovers: Let's Save Coffee Together Friday, 29 September 2017 – Starting  today and culminating on Sunday, 1 October 2017, the 77 Member States of the…

Climate Change Effects are Cropping Up Climate Change Effects are Cropping Up and it's only going to get worse: Transformational Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa Amanda Fuller, Former Crop Trust…

Zinc-Biofortified Wheat: Harnessing Genetic Diversity for Improved Nutritional Quality SCIENCE BRIEF: BIOFORTIFICATION | NO.1 As one of the world’s major staple food crops, wheat is consumed by 35%…

Cui Bono Genebanks? Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs Today sees the launch of the latest Access to Nutrition Index (ANI). It’s an independent, science-based ranking of food and…

An Interview with the "Godfather" of Wild Potato Relatives On World Environment Day, we interview Alberto Salas, the “godfather” of wild potato relatives Alberto Salas has dedicated his life to the…

A Homecoming for Rice AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Côte d’Ivoire, more than a decade after the center re-located to Benin during a civil war. But first, all its rice…

Time for Tea Luigi Guarino | Director of Science  My mother-in-law, Hilda Gathoni, has been growing tea for most of her 83 years. The same tea. The tea she and her family also drink. It’s about…

Why I dislike the International Day for Biological Diversity Luigi Guarino | Director of Science I don’t like the International Day for Biological Diversity much. I mean, I’m fine with the concept.…

Orchards, Cold Cider and the Global Strategy for Apple “Them Crow Eggs, Bellflowers, Staymans, Limbertwigs, they're all sweet little cuties, but there ain't no apple in this world like a Virginia…