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July 9, 2024
Política pública fortalece a conservação e o uso de recursos genéticos para alimentação e agropecuária no Brasil
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
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