Historically, British pension funds have had limited access to high-growth investment opportunities within the UK, meaning that overseas investors have been the primary beneficiaries of the nation's ...

McLean, Virginia-based Mars is a family-owned company that operates in more than 80 countries. It makes candies like Twix, ...

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Often described as the Nobel of food and agriculture, the $500,000 prize this year shines a light on the role of seed banks ...

Two scientists who helped create an international seed vault received the World Food Prize last week in Des Moines, spotlighting the importance of seed banks, including one in northeast Iowa. The Seed ...

It’s a backup for more than 100 seed banks around the world, including Seed Savers Exchange based in northeast Iowa. Seed Savers manages a collection with more than 20,000 heirloom varieties of fruits ...

Seed Savers Exchange, or SSE, is a non-profit organization based near Decorah, Iowa, that preserves heirloom plant varieties through regeneration, distribution and seed exchange. It is one of the ...

An emerging group of farmers and growers in Chile, known as seed guardians, aim to protect the traditional crops of their ...

As Mike Bollinger, executive director of the Seed Savers Exchange, a nonprofit seed bank in the United States, put it: “If you lose it, it’s gone forever.” This time, 23 genebanks made ...

THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and seed firm, Seed Co Limited (Seed Co), have raised alarm over an increase in counterfeit seeds being sold as legitimate company stock as the 2024-25 ...