Norway is funding the “Local Seed Restoration Project” of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Malawi. Hanne Blafjelldal, a high-ranking Norwegian government officer says: “The goal is to use local seeds, which are important in mitigating the effects...

Representatives from all over the world met in Kigali the first week in November for the 7th Governing Body meeting to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The three parties involved in the Svalbard Global...

A successful side session on the 2018 IPPC annual theme “Plant Health and Environmental Protection” was held at FAO Headquarters in Rome on Monday 16 April at the margins of the thirteenth session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-13)....

RESEARCHERS have identified 25 types of cassava seeds that they will develop to make them resilient to the country’s climatic challenges, diseases, drought and extreme coldness. Efforts are intended to enable regions that currently don’t grow the crop due to weather...

NAIROBI, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The UN specialized agency on combating hunger on Monday urged African states to embrace traditional crops in order to combat climate change. Wilson Ronno, Crops Officer at The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Kenya, told a...