FAO's new sourcebook, Optimization and Minimization: Towards sustainable plant production, links seed systems, cropping systems, pest management, mechanisation and extension into one approach for raising yields while cutting losses and pollution.
VegetablesA new phase of the Crop Trust's BOLD project, led by the International Potato Center in Kenya, will take 54 breeding lines carrying traits from wild potatoes towards a new variety and build the seed chain to get it to farmers.
CropsKenya's agriculture ministry is revising two draft bills, a Seeds and Plant Varieties Bill 2026 and a Plant Genetic Resources Institute Bill 2026, with input from farmers, seed companies, breeders and seven CGIAR centres.
More than 500 people from 17 wards gathered for the Mbire Good Food and Seed Festival, where over twenty local crop varieties were displayed and exchanged and farmers voiced concern that fewer landraces leave them exposed to drought.
With wheat output at roughly a third of pre-conflict levels and livestock herds halved, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT sets out six priorities for Syria's agricultural recovery, from cereal and seed systems to rangelands and cooperatives.
