November 18, 2020

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International Whole Grain Day 2020 - Celebrating whole grains as an integral part of healthy, sustainable — and delicious — diets

Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society (APBREBES) report from the 2020 UPOV Session

November 17, 2020

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Your participation needed: Global Plant Phenotyping Survey 2020/21

November 13, 2020

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An international rescue mission from Syria to Svalbard

November 2, 2020

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What digital revolution? Hundreds of millions of farmers still cannot get online

October 16, 2020

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CIOPORA video release: Understand essentially derived variety concept in 90 seconds

September 9, 2020

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The Industry Advisory Group (IAG) of the IPPC ePhyto Solution calls on governments to support the adoption of ePhyto to facilitate international agricultural trade, which would be crucial in safeguarding global food security beyond the Covid-19 recovery period

September 2, 2020

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The evolving landscape around genome editing in agriculture - Many countries have exempted or move to exempt forms of genome editing from GMO regulation of crop plants

August 19, 2020

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Research underscores importance of global surveillance of plant pathogens

August 14, 2020

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International Seed Federation warns against unsolicited seed packages

July 14, 2020

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Crop disease pandemic coming ‘sooner rather than later’ (SciDev.Net)

July 6, 2020

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Current outbreaks of COVID-19 and the international movement of seeds - A statement from the International Seed Federation

June 29, 2020

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Q&A with new ISF President Donald Coles: “We have nothing to apologize for and everything to celebrate”

May 26, 2020

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

May 25, 2020

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Israel’s hope for food security post-corona lies in seeds - In an era of severe climate events and global pandemic, Israeli scientists are studying the advantages of legacy seeds ahead of the next crisis (Israel 21c)

May 18, 2020

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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

May 13, 2020

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Mark Schermer, Head of Syngenta Flowers EAME about the COVID-19 crisis: ‘Now it is most important to support our customers’

May 11, 2020

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On tomato breeding and realizing your dream: from lab to dish at Hazera Seeds

April 29, 2020

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Latest statement from the World Seed Partnership partners

April 27, 2020

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Human activities are the No.1 contributors for the globalization of plant pests

April 22, 2020

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GE crops yielded massive economic and environmental benefits

April 21, 2020

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Global Report on Food Crises reveals scope of food crises as COVID-19 poses new risks to vulnerable countries - Annual report on acute food insecurity and malnutrition published today

Joint statement on COVID-19 impacts on food security and nutrition - FAO, IFAD, the World Bank and WFP on the occasion of the Extraordinary G20 Agriculture Minister's Meeting

International Seed Federation - Seed movement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a video Q&A with Szabolcs Ruthner, Regulatory Affairs Executive, and Rose Souza Richards, Seed Health Manager

April 17, 2020

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International Seed Federation response to the Call to Action by the Food and Land Use Coalition

A call to action for world leaders: Preventing a global food security crisis while combatting COVID-19 (The Food and Land Use Coalition)

Relying on “local food” is a distant dream for most of the world
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New report looks at food crises in the time of COVID-19 - 2020 edition of The Global Report on Food Crises will be released 21 April - Describes the scale of acute hunger as implications of COVID-19 pandemic for food security begin to be felt

April 16, 2020

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Concerned experts ask world leaders to head off a global food security crisis from COVID-19 - The number of the world’s hungry could double and trade restrictions will harm food importing nations, experts say

April 15, 2020

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Don’t forget about the impact of COVID-19 on the rural poor and on food security - The Scaling Up community of practice discusses challenges and opportunities for an improved “new normal” for agriculture, research and development