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March 5, 2024


La COP16: ¿la agricultura contribuye a la biodiversidad?


November 11, 2022


¿Cómo se pueden construir los bancos locales de semillas?


September 16, 2022


Banco Mundial de Sementes guarda uma das maiores riquezas da humanidade


April 18, 2022


Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops (The Guardian)


March 15, 2022


A cathedral for crop diversity - The world’s most cutting edge genebank opened its doors on Tuesday in a high-profile inauguration ceremony in Palmira, Colombia


October 21, 2021


Haitian agriculture has a seed problem (Devex)


October 12, 2021


The future of food is wild - A new potato variety called CIP-Matilde is the latest example of using the wild relatives of crops to adapt our agriculture to new threats


May 26, 2020


Pandemics aren’t limited to people: How the world’s most famous seed vault defends plants against their next big outbreak (The  Counter)


May 18, 2020


The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Global Seed Vault
Il Trattato Internazionale e il Deposito Globale di Semi delle Isole Svalbard


March 24, 2020


‘Tip of the Iceberg’ by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director


February 24, 2020


World’s food systems rely on biodiversity - FAO Director-General urges “robust” outcome from Convention on Biological Diversity negotiations


February 19, 2020


Bringing landraces back home, 50 years later


December 3, 2019


Wild plants from four continents deliver climate change lifeline for xrops - Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food


November 14, 2019


New tool to help local crop varieties flourish - FAO publishes Voluntary Guidelines for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Farmers Varieties/Landraces


November 11, 2019


Global treaty critical for saving disappearing plants amid climate change - FAO calls for greater support for plant genepool and the Fund which support millions of farmers around the world


November 8, 2019


The Plant Treaty: Q&A with Crop Trust Director of Science, Luigi Guarino


September 13, 2019


Can the gene editing technology known as CRISPR help reduce biodiversity loss worldwide? Though scientists are optimistic that CRISPR could help, they also emphasize caution and community engagement in order to get it right (Ensia)


June 21, 2019


Fear of biotechnology threatens efforts to save Brazil’s pinto beans (Genetic Literacy Project)


March 28, 2019


SPGRC in Zambia urge all the world’s gene banks to use the Svalbard Global Seed Vault


March 21, 2019


Biopiracy: The misuse of patenting systems at the disadvantage of local communities


February 25, 2019


Bolivia - Urge proteguer las semillas nativas - El ingreso de semillas transgénicas está afectando variedades de maíz nativo (InfoRegion)


February 22, 2019


The biodiversity that is crucial for our food and agriculture is disappearing by the day - FAO launches the first-ever global report on the state of biodiversity that underpins our food systems


February 6, 2019


A very small number of crops are dominating globally - That's bad news for sustainable agriculture


January 24, 2019


Le roi des fèves - Grâce à des années de collecte de spécimens de haricots issus du monde entier, un ingénieur a constitué, en Colombie, une gigantesque banque de semences (Courrier international)


February 23, 2018


Save the seeds - and the living plants we eat and use - Svalbard seed vault is the apex of a global network to protecting plant genetic resources for food and agriculture


February 22, 2018


Seed savers celebrate “Doomsday Vault” tenth anniversary


November 15, 2017


The global partnership working around the clock to save wild relatives of major crops (Food Tank


November 13, 2017


International seed sector renews commitment to genetic resources 


May 22, 2017


Royal Botanic Gardens releases The State of the World's Plants Report 2017 - 1,730 new plant species discovered, including foods of the future


January 18, 2017


CIMMYT scientist Deepmala Sehgal on the trail of novel wheat diversity


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