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Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

During the last couple of months, we have been organizing events and activities all over the world – from North and Central America to Australia and New Zealand.

Happy days in the Asia-Pacific Region

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7 November, 2016 -- Devex's, Lisa Cornish, chats with Marie Haga, Crop Trust's Executive Director and Sally Norton, head of the Australian Grains Genebank, on climate change and why conserving crop diversity, including the wild...

Genebanks safeguard and make available the genetic diversity of our food crops. This is a critically important endeavor, but protecting and sharing plant materials – seeds, tissues in test tubes etc. – alone is not enough. Beyond...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

We have decided to collect our main activities during the months of June and July and present you with a summer Newsletter edition. I hope you appreciate the following summary:

Enhancing the...

This week, I’d like to use this blog to introduce a new colleague here at the Crop Trust. His name is Dr Benjamin Kilian, and he’ll be working on our project on crop wild relatives, mainly looking after the pre-breeding component....

Bananas originated in South and Southeast Asia, and are now produced throughout the world’s tropics and eaten in at least 192 countries worldwide. Quinoa came from the South American Andes, and is currently cultivated in almost...

By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs

No, not my contribution to the debates on Brexit or who should be the next US president. The immigrants I have in mind are plants, not people – though admittedly ones that have...

New international agreements on sustainable development and biodiversity conservation explicitly prioritize fully safeguarding the genetic diversity of crops and their wild relatives as well as domesticated animals by 2020.

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Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Dear Executive Board Members and Observers,

The highlights of the month of March were the finalization of the CGIAR Genebank Platform proposal (2017 – 2022), the finalization of the report on phase 2...

Recent BBC article, titled "Go Wild to Protect Food Security" says that the answers to future food security may be found in the wild relatives of our domesticated food crops and highlights the urgent need to "go wild" and conserve...

A new study has shown that over 70 percent of the wild relatives of our domesticated food crops are under-represented in genebanks. 

The study, “Global Conservation Priorities for Crop Wild Relatives“, published in Nature Plants,...