Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...

The Shenzhou-21 crew has been marooned on China's Tiangong space station after three of their colleagues were brought back to ...

Humanity is losing the genetic diversity that sustains life on Earth at a pace that should alarm every nation. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, about 75% of the world’s crop ...

More than 120,000 seeds have been sent to the ‘Doomsday vault’ in the Arctic in a bid to ensure the future of plant species ...

The idea of a doomsday vault hidden on a remote Arctic island might sound like something from the latest James Bond movie. But the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is very much real - and could one day save ...

The world’s largest backup library of crop seeds sits inside an Arctic mountain, but Colorado scientists play a key role in preserving plant diversity. Geoffrey Hawtin, the British Canadian plant ...

Two scientists who helped create an international seed vault received the World Food Prize last week in Des Moines, spotlighting the importance of seed banks, including one in northeast Iowa. The Seed ...

World leaders and top experts in development, agriculture, economic policy, resource management and nutrition gather annually in Iowa for the Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue. The World Food ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Adriana Craciun, Boston University (THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s food ...

World leaders and top experts in development, agriculture, economic policy, resource management and nutrition gather annually in Iowa for the Norman E. Bourlaug International Dialogue. The World Food ...