Seedkeeping can create a sense of home, reconnect communities with ancestral crops and preserve biodiversity and culturally significant crops for future generations.
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Indigenous beans could enhance food security in Cabo Verde which depends on food imports.
Not all flowers smell good, to people at least, but their scents are a way to attract pollinators.
Improved seeds can alleviate a food security crisis deepened by COVID-19.
For some sand-dwelling plants, stickiness is a defense tactic that keeps predators at bay.
Anti-nutrients naturally occur in food and can block the amount of other nutrients available for your body to use. But their effects aren't all bad, which is why they're undergoing an image makeover.
How Indigenous communities and a Timor-Leste NGO are reviving food sovereignty in one of Asia's poorest countries.
And why development funders should listen to smallholder farmers
New research shows even brief hot spells can damage seed quality.
Saving seed is a way of protecting the world's vegetable varieties, saving money, and increasingly, a political statement too.
Masting is what biologists call the pattern of trees for miles around synchronizing to all produce lots of seeds – or very few. Why and how do they get on schedule?
With advancements in technology, libraries are offering much more than something to read. A library researcher offers a sampling of some unexpected items that library patrons can check out these days.
Little effort has been made to improve the quality control of the seed supply chain as a whole in Uganda.
This is the story of how seeds came together bit-by-bit over a really long time, as plants evolved.
Sharing seeds was common practice among farmers throughout history until the rise of agribusiness. Now seeds are trademarked and regulated, but there's a new place to get them for free: the library.
US farmers are planting more and more acres with seeds coated with neonicotinoid pesticides. An ecologist explains why this approach is overkill and may be doing more harm than good.
There were some African food security initiatives from 2017 that deserve a special mention for the precedent they set.
Findings from several scientific studies show the real impact of Rwanda's agricultural policies and the challenges it faces.
If you want to live on Mars, you're going to need to grow food. Seeds are naturally equipped to handle challenging Earth environments, but how well can they survive what they'll encounter off-planet?
A seed contains nearly everything a tree needs to get growing. Just add a dash of water, a bit of warmth and the right location, and you'll be seeing green in no time.
Top contributors
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PhD Candidate, GPEM, The University of Queensland
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Botanist, University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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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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Senior Lecturer in Natural Resources and Development, University of East Anglia
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Adjunct professor, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
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Peter Lipton Senior Lecturer in History of Modern Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
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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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University of Arkansas
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Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut
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Professor in Development Studies, Université catholique de Louvain
