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Making seed saving sexy – On the National Geographic blog
“Saving seeds is not as sexy as say, saving the dolphins, and it doesn’t attract nearly as many Hollywood types to its cause. But preserving pla Read more...
Tagged With: biodiversity, crop diversity, Genebank, national geographic Filed Under: Genebank, Grants and Partnerships
Crop Trust’s Marie Haga visits CIAT genebank
Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, made a special stop at CIAT headquarters in Cali, Colombia on Thursday, 18 Septembe Read more...
Tagged With: agrobiodiversity, André Zandstra, biodiversity, breeding, CGIAR Fund, climate change, conservation, crop breeding, crop diversity, Crop Trust, Crop Wild Relatives, CRP, director general, diversity, food security, Genebank, germplasm, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Headquarters, Luis Salazar, Marie Haga, natural resource, Ruben G. Echeverría, United Nations Climate Summit, wild relatives Filed Under: Events, Genebank, Grants and Partnerships
Urgent call to collect and preserve crop biodiversity
Rachel Kyte, the World Bank Group vice president and special envoy for climate change, argues on the Scientific American blog that there has never bef Read more...
Tagged With: adaptation, agrobiodiversity, beans, biodiversity, capacity strengthening, cassava, climate change, food security, forages, Genebank, genetic resources program, nutrition, plant genetic resources, rice Filed Under: Genebank, Grants and Partnerships
Banding together: A global community committed to biodiversity and food security
“The challenges for agriculture are vast, but we do have a basic structure to build on in order to find solutions. We do have a functioning global par Read more...
Tagged With: agrobiodiversity, biodiversity, CGIAR, climate change, Colin Khoury, Crop Trust, Crop Wild Relatives, Genebank, genebanks, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Marie Haga, Millennium Seed Bank, MOFA, Norad, Norway, resilience, Royal Botanic Garden Kew, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, United Nations Filed Under: Genebank, Grants and Partnerships
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Banding together: A global community committed to biodi...
April 28, 2014
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Guaranteeing food security in times of (climate) change...
September 25, 2013
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The Ford Foundation and CIAT: An enduring partnership s...
August 9, 2013
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Germany funds critical to maintaining CIAT’s crop col...
August 26, 2013
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Promising USDA-FAS scientific fellows join CIAT
October 27, 2015
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Video: IFAD-funded support for cassava farmers in Cambodia
September 16, 2015
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New PABRA Infographic: Better beans to enhance food security, incomes, and health in Africa
August 5, 2015
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On the donor trail in Southern Africa
July 23, 2015
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APC-Colombia and CIAT, partners in fostering good agricultural practices
July 1, 2015
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