In the Media

The Crop Trust is proud to see the success of the Sweetpotato Project celebrated by the Darwin Initiative. The story highlights how farmers in Madagascar are now harvesting bigger, healthier sweetpotatoes thanks to clean planting...

In the latest episode of the Oh Crop! Food Systems Podcast, Dr Stefan Schmitz, Executive Director of the Crop Trust, joins host Kat Morgan for a wide-ranging conversation recorded during Climate Week NYC 2025. Together, they...

As the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) marks its 25th anniversary, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is sharing its remarkable story with the world – and inspiring a new wave of awareness about the power of seeds.

Kew’s new podcast, Une...

TIME has named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault one of the 25 most iconic inventions of the past quarter century.

“Superman had it right: if you want to keep something safe, build a mountain fortress above the Arctic Circle,” TIME...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) announced the launch of the Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants (GCCFP), a new international initiative to coordinate efforts to safeguard the diversity of the...

The New York Botanical Garden and partners have launched the Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants (GCCFP). This new initiative brings together botanical gardens, genebanks, research institutions and other partners to...

In December 2023, the civil war that had broken out the previous April between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took a troubling turn when the paramilitary group seized the country’s...

Recently, the Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture warned that the country’s crop diversity is under serious threat. This major risk to national food security was in focus at a workshop in Abuja organized by the National Centre for...

Seed banks are vital living repositories of crop diversity – a form of agricultural insurance that underpins global food security. Yet many remain underfunded and at risk. In 2024, Dr. Cary Fowler was awarded the 2024 World Food...