The global seed industry was urged to "respond and adapt to global challenges to ensure it continues to thrive and not just to survive" by International Seed Federation (ISF) President, Jean-Cristophe Gouache, during the World Seed Congress opening on May 22, 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.

Farmers need timely and reliable information and they need it now, especially in the face of climate variability and the havoc it wreaks on their crops, and therein their livelihoods. Climatic conditions can vary quite drastically from one year to the next. In this setting, managing a farm and relying on the previous year’s weather patterns would simply be a recipe for disaster. This, however, is often the reality for most Colombian farmers.

FAO is working with the government of Peru to assist some 7,000 mostly small-scale farmers restore their capacity to produce crops and feed their families in the wake of heavy rains, floods and landslides that hit the country earlier this year.

Genetically modified sugarcane that produces more sucrose has been developed by scientists from Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil.

Son La province. FAO is helping Viet Nam achieve higher food safety and quality standards, with an innovative vegetable sector project benefiting consumers and farmers. The outcomes and impacts of this project, titled “Strengthening Vietnamese SPS Capacities for Trade: Improving safety and quality of fresh vegetables through the value-chain approach (Phase II)”

The Australian Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) invites comments from the public to assess license application DIR 153 from The University of Queensland for a field trial (limited and controlled release) of sorghum genetically modified for grain quality traits.

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and University of California Davis studying the sociability of clovers have found that a single gene coding for UDP-glucose flavonoid 3-O-glucosyltransferase plays a key role in plant diversity and competition.

Parboiling, a task largely done by women in parts of Africa involves partially boiling rice in the husk and drying it well before it is milled. The photo is the first runner-up in A rice farmer’s life, a competition celebrating the 50th year of IR8. The “miracle rice” was developed by IRRI scientists in the early 1960s is believed to have saved many countries in Asia from famine.

The young scientist contest is a traditional meeting by the IAS annually to provide the needs how to strengthen our scientific manpower. The English presentation is required to meet the demand of the turning point of further Vietnam agriculture. Recently, the southern agriculture has emerged as one of the leading exported agro-food commodities.

In a three-year field study conducted in the United States, researchers proved that engineered soybeans yield more than conventional soybeans in the year 2050, when population is predicted to be at 9.7 billion and carbon dioxide levels to hit 600 parts per million—a 50% increase over today's levels.