More than 90% of Africa’ small-scale famers get their seeds from informal systems. Governments and donors should shift their attention from the formal and invest more in the informal sector.
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The fossilized plant Montsechia relied on water to disseminate its genetic material and may rewrite the book on when and how the first flowering plants evolved.
In 1926, just outside of St Petersburg in Russia, botanist and geneticist Nikolai Vavilov set up the Pavlovsk Experimental Station. It was one of the world’s first “seed banks”. The term “seed bank” or…
The large heavy seeds of a species of Australian tree rely upon smaller animals for clumped seed dispersal. Researchers from…
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Professor of Entomology and Extension Specialist, Penn State
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Associate Professor in History of Modern Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
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Botanist, University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Professor and DST/NRF Bio-economy Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Professor of Geological Sciences and Paleobotany, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Adjunct professor, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
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Senior Lecturer in Natural Resources and Development, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society, Penn State
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Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Researcher, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town
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Director, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, CSIRO
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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PhD Candidate, GPEM, The University of Queensland
