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Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops

Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food Bonn,…

Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet

Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet The world’s farmers urgently need new crop varieties that are resilient to such results of climate change as droughts and outbreaks of new…

Wild eggplant. Photo: Luis Salazar/Crop Trust

Wild Bananas from Papua New Guinea Boost Food Security for All

Wild Bananas from Papua New Guinea Boost Food Security for All Bananas come in a huge array of different types, some say perhaps a thousand or more distinct cultivated varieties, but there’s only one…

Pile of yellow and green bananas

Why We Need Crop Diversity

Crop diversity is essential for life on Earth. It underpins nearly everything we eat and drink. But it’s rapidly disappearing.

Bean varieties in wooden boxes at CIAT genebank

Why Korea, and the World, Must Protect Crop Diversity

Why Korea, and the World, Must Protect Crop Diversity Dr. Michael Koch penned an editorial on the importance of conserving crop diversity and issuing a call for action in the Korea Herald. With…

Why I dislike the International Day for Biological Diversity

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.…

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