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May 31, 2024


ICAR's big contribution to Goa's rice heritage - Geneticists at ICAR-Goa discuss the challenges of preserving and improving Goa's rice varieties (Gomantak Times)


May 22, 2023


Conserving biodiversity at East-West Seed - The current status of biodiversity is a matter of great concern


November 23, 2021


China's crop germplasm resources census shows advantages, challenges for seed security (Global Times)


November 15, 2021


In the age of hybrid crops, the importance of preserving landraces (The Indian Express)


October 22, 2021


An interview with the Director of the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), India's largest plant gene bank (Krishi Jagran)


June 24, 2021


A helping hand to reboot seed conservation in the Philippines


June 30, 2020


A haven of diversity - A look at a genebank for Pacific crops and trees


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


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


October 10, 2019


Heirloom crops, indigenous varieties are making a comeback - Many of India's indigenous varieties had slowly disappeared with the rise of hybrid seeds (The Economic Times)


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)


August 15, 2019


Time to seed the world


April 7, 2019


India's Biological Diversity Act: Beware the regulatory maze (IPWatchdog)


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 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


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 


July 14, 2017


Nepal - Many of the estimated 1,700 varieties of rice that have evolved to suit the country's micro-climates and soils are now in danger of becoming extinct (Nepali Times)


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


April 11, 2017


An international plant genetics is critical to the Australian grains industry (Weekly Times Now)


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