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The FAO wants to improve standards across the world’s genebanks to improve the conservation of crop diversity which in turn means securing resilient global food supplies. The Food and Agriculture ...

Wheat, beans and cassava are among the crops that could lose up to half of their “best or optimally suitable” growing land by 2100 due to climate change, the FAO has warned. Plantain and coffee have ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will host a major conference on plant breeding techniques to meet some of today’s biggest agricultural challenges, such as climate change, diseases and ...

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