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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,...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Let me start out with a big thank you to the German Government. We signed a grant agreement for a EUR 25 million contribution to the Crop Trust Endowment on 15 January in Berlin. The biggest single...

Scientists and crop breeders are racing to identify the wild ancestors of domesticated plants before a warming world hastens their demise.

A social anthropologist tells us about her recent experiences amidst a large and global community working towards conserving and using plant genetic resources for food security and adaptation to climate change.

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Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

October has proven to be the busiest month of 2015 for us all at the Crop Trust. We have organized events and activities all over the world – from welcoming forage specialists at the Secretariat in...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Let us start this month's 'Corner' with the scientific work and mention the following:

A visit of our staff and to negotiate collecting agreements in Latin America finally came to an end in mid Septemer...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Potatoes From Peru

Two weeks ago a delegation of farmers from the Potato Park deposited potato seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Personally I find any seed deposit very touching and I’m humbled...

Daily Development explores “global development and the people behind it”. In the following interview, Marie Haga, the Executive Director of the Crop Trust, discusses crop diversity, food security, and how and why we all must...