Global Sustainable Crop Production

sustainable crop production in the lab

To produce enough food to feed the world while protecting the environment, the SBC brings together and enables research teams to find innovative and sustainable research-based solutions to crop production problems, and delivers those solutions to farmers, educators and other experts across the globe through outreach and education initiatives.

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Global Sustainable Crop Production Initiatives

USDA Food for Progress Sustainability Assessment

Corn in the sun beam

Working in collaboration with the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service and The Improve Group, identifying if, and to what extent, Food for Progress development activities and recommended practices have been sustained since the project's end, and what practices growers have or plan to continue. USDA Food for Progress Sustainability Assessment >>

Oat Global

Young oat child

Organizing the global oat community to develop community-wide research and extension approaches to minimize the impact of oat rust diseases. Oat Global >>

Wheat Rust Surveillance in Ethiopia

Wheat Rust

Discovering new genetic approaches to protect the world's wheat supply from rust diseases and providing Ethiopian scientists and farmers with the tools and knowledge needed to successfully combat wheat rust. Wheat Rust Surveillance in Ethiopia >>