Growing up in the mountains of western Guatemala, Feliciano Perez Tomas cultivated the same type of native maize his family had for generations. The breed of corn was central to his Indigenous K’iche’ ...

As its collection rises to nearly 2.5bn, there are signs it is making progress in its ambition to preserve the world’s flora ...

Seed gene bank helps farmers adapt to climate change Global food supply chains under growing pressure Fighting biodiversity loss key to food security CALI, Colombia, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

In a paper published Friday in Nature Plants, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, detail for the first time the scale of threatened species that are unable to be conserved in seed banks.

Charles Gourd's garden is so big that before he installed irrigation, it could take three hours to water everything by hand. He grows beans and cucumbers that wind up archways you can walk underneath ...

CONWAY -- Bell Urban Farm and Farmstand co-owner Zack McCannon is branching out and starting a new business venture collecting and selling heirloom seeds via Honeycomb Seed and Seed Bank. McCannon ...