Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Never thought I’d see the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Psychology Today , yet here we are. The Pacific’s regional genebank is set for more work on lesser-known crops. Too bad most of them won’t be able to go to Svalbard. How to make a genebank beautiful as well as sustainable. Australia has a rice genebank.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

Maybe he’d like to have a look at the the Crop Trust’s endowment fund for SDG 2.5 ? Shout out for the Access Agriculture farmer-to-farmer educational video platform from the Seed System Newsletter. Those farming project don’t have to involve orphan crops , but it wouldn’t hurt. Ok, do Genesys next.

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Zea Mays is the botanical name of maize also known as corn or sweet corn. It is an annual crop that produces white, yellow, or bi-colored seeds or kernels.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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Agric4profits

MAY 23, 2024

The Maize/Corn Shoots originates from the seed during germination. As the seed absorbs water, it swells, and the embryonic shoot, called the plumule, begins to

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 24, 2024

I wonder if any of those new accessions are “ opportunity crops.” Which is not to say working on staples like maize isn’t cool. There’s an opportunity to help the Land Institute with its research on perennial crops. And yes, seeds are indeed alive. Just ask Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra. Just ask CAAS.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

This year was a pretty hot and dry year, but still, some of the crops I raised did pretty well, he says with a satisfied smile. Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch or irrigation.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Public–private partnerships and genetically modified crop development for smallholder farmers in Africa. Recalcitrant maize: Conserving agrobiodiversity in the era of genetically modified organisms. Efforts to improve crop adaptation and resilience to climate change need to take gender into account if they are to work.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is working across the globe to help farmers access the information and resources they need to future-proof their farms. CIMMYT also helps them access seeds to grow crops that are more resistant to droughts and pests. He points to the recent U.N.

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Agric4profits

MAY 21, 2024

Maize/Corn kernels are the seeds of the maize plant and are rich in carbohydrates, providing a significant source of energy for human consumption, livestock fee

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Agri-tech

AUGUST 24, 2023

Research has brought clarity to the longstanding question of how starch granules form in the seeds of Triticeae crops – wheat, barley, and rye – unlocking diverse potential benefits for numerous industries and for human health.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When I arrived in Mexico City nine years ago to research the effort by citizen groups to stop multinational seed companies from planting genetically modified corn in Mexico, the groups had just won an injunction to suspend planting permits. They know maize is different.” He said with a smile, “The judge surely eats tacos. He was right.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Seed detective Adam Alexander travels to the Kor çë region to discover how regenerative horticulture is holding up. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country. In many regions farmers began planting modern, imported cultivars.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa by Aaron Eddens Seeding Empire connects the dots between some of the earliest Green Revolution projects in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s to those taking place across the African continent today. But she retains memories of her mothers kitchen.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Here, we look at some crops that might fare well as UK temperatures increase, and consider how these might fit into a more sustainable farming system. On a farm in West Wales, Nathan Richards (pictured) is beginning to harvest his first small commercial crop of peaches and nectarines. Here, we look at four potential candidates.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In addition to growing millet, sorghum, maize, and other crops, they produce seeds to use the following year. Many, unfortunately, were resorting to eating the seeds they had intended to plant the following season. Many, unfortunately, were resorting to eating the seeds they had intended to plant the following season.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As part of my vocation here in Oaxaca, Mexico, I offer storytelling “sessions” about cacao and maize. Cacao is both a tree that houses unprocessed seed matter, while chocolate is (at least) cacao seed that has been ground into either food or drink. Countless clients have asked me if I “do” (i.e.,

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Everything from the number of farms, to the types of crops, to how they get to market, have all become more consolidated in recent decades. Because of the political and scientific focus on staple grain production, just three crops (wheat, rice and maize) make up almost half of global calorie consumption.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.

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Agwired

MARCH 21, 2025

per acre for the 2024 crop year. Stine Seed Company is proud to announce that March 27, 2025, will be officially proclaimed Women in Agriculture Day in Iowa. Bayer announced the opening of a new maize seed facility in Kabwe, Zambia. Corn growers are eligible for the program with a payment rate of $42.91

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought. Crop Trust , International Crop Trust is dedicated to conserving plant genetic resources to promote sustainable agriculture and support global food security. food culture.

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