CWR in the News
2021
March
- Les chroniques du végétal Blog: Wild genes for wild climates
2020
December
November
- The Good Men Project: All Hail the Rise of the Climate-Smart Potato
- World Economic Forum: Why would anyone die for a seed? New ‘House on Fire’ podcast looks at the race to save genetic diversity
- Phys.org: On the hunt for wild bananas in Papua New Guinea
- ABC News (Australia): Scientists race to find wild, ancient bananas to save the popular fruit from climate change
September
- PotatoPro: Potato Potential – in all climates
- The Food Institute: Food’s role in climate change mitigation
- Agronomy.org: Wild Cousins May Help Crops Battle Climate Change
- SeedWorld: Wild Cousins May Help Crops Battle Climate Change
- Agrolink: Trigo moderno pode ser editado graças à ancestral (Modern wheat can be modified thanks to its ancestors)
June
March
- Food Tank: Last crop before the desert
- Universitat Politècnica de València: EggPreBreed II
- Phys.org: New eggplant varieties resistant to extreme conditions
February
- Grain Central: Drought tolerant lucerne program to feed the world
January
2019
December
- JSTOR Daily: Can Crops’ Wild Relatives Save Troubled Agriculture?
- National Geographic: We’re turning to offbeat foods to survive a harsher climate
- Thomson Reuters: ‘Indiana Jones’ Scientists Collect Seeds in Wild for Climate Change Fight
- The Guardian: Wild seed collectors turn Indiana Jones in the search for resilient crops
- NPR: Raiders Of The Lost Crops: Scientists Race Against Time To Save Genetic Diversity
- New Scientist: The race to find wild relatives of food plants before it’s too late
- New Age: Scientists search for food plant genes
- Phys.Org: Scientists hunt wild relatives of food crops to bolster defences
- Radio France Internationale: Scientists search the wild for food plant genes
- The Independent: Scientists search wild for food plant genes
- Fast Company: Scientists are searching the world for rare varieties of seeds that could help agriculture survive climate change
- India Today: How ‘Indiana Jones’ scientists braved leeches and tigers to fight climate change
November
September
- Aftenposten (Norway): Forskarane jaktar på «klima-gen» som kan redde matplantene (Researchers hunting for “climate genes” that can save food plants)
August
- Food Tank: Selection by Stone
- Resilience: Selection by Stone
June
- Food Tank: Beyond Hummus
May
- Thomson Reuters Foundation: Wild relatives of pearl millet can take the heat
- Science Business: Birmingham: First comprehensive network of wild crop species will help breeders tackle food insecurity
- Ecologist: Agricultural memory and sustainability
February
- Science: The new potato
January
- The Star (Kenya): Researchers develop better millet varieties
- Thomson Reuters: Extended partnership to deliver high-yielding, disease-resistant finger millet to farmers
- PBS Nova: To Secure the Future of Food, Look to the Ancestors of Eggplant
- ReliefWeb: Delivering High-Yielding, Disease-Resistant Finger Millet to Farmers
2018
December
- Good Fruit & Vegetables: Drought-proof potatoes target of international research
- Food Tank: Alfalfa, Queen of Forages: Reconquering the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia
- Stock Journal (Australia): Drought-proof potatoes target of international research
- North Queensland Register: Drought-proof potatoes target of international research
- The Land (Australia): Drought-proof potatoes target of international research
November
- Inforegion: Científicos usan parientes silvestres de la papa para desarrollar variedades adaptadas al cambio climático
- ICRISAT: Significant progress in pearl millet pre-breeding to develop drought- and blast-resistant varieties
- CIP: Scientists use the potato’s wild relatives to produce climate-resilient varieties
- CIP: Científicos usan parientes silvestres de la papa para desarrollar variedades adaptadas al cambio climático
- Global FoodMate: Researchers developing potatoes resistant to disease and climate change
October
- New Food: Developing crop diversity and genebanks to feed the world
- ICRISAT: Wilder and stronger: India-Myanmar pigeon pea program gets new research boost
- The Hindu: India-Myanmar pigeon pea project gets a research boost
- Rural Marketing: India-Myanmar pigeon pea programme gets new research boost
- Business Standard: India can treble pigeon pea production with disease-resistant crops
- The Quint: India can treble pigeon pea production with disease-resistant crops
- Devdiscourse: Scientist says India can increase production of ‘arhar dal’ three times
- ICRISAT Mali: Projet de sélection sur des lignées obtenues à partir de sorgho sauvage
- ICARDA: Using wild relative species to deliver climate-smart crops to farmers in drylands
- ICRISAT: The women finger millet advocates of Western Kenya
September
- Thomson Reuters: Wild cousins of finger millet show promise of parasite resistance
- ICRISAT: Wild cousins of finger millet show promise of parasite resistance
- Food Tank: Cultivating Resilience to Climate Change
- Crop Trust: Alfalfa pre-breeding: Spotlight on Alan Humphries
August
- The James Hutton Institute: Crop Wild Relatives pre-breeding data available on Germinate 3
June
- EMBRAPA: Representatives of world project to rescue wild varieties visit Embrapa Temperate Agriculture
May
- Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals: Taming the Wild Pigeon Pea
March
- Genetic Literacy Project: How wheat’s wild cousins could help increase its genetic diversity
February
- ICRISAT: Distant cousins of domesticated crops harbor traits to feed a hungry planet
- Bistandsaktuelt: På jakt etter risens ville slektninger (Looking for the rice wild relatives)
2017
December
November
- BBC: Seeds hold hidden treasures for future food
- Food Tank: The Global Partnership Working Around the Clock to Save Wild Relatives of Major Crops
September
2016
March
- ScienceDaily: Over 70% of essential crop wild relative species in urgent need of collection
- Thomson Reuters: To climate-proof our food supply, go where the wild things are
2015
March
- The Telegraph. How Kew Gardens is battling to survive
2014
May
- The Guardian. Safeguarding the future of food security