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Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet
The world’s farmers urgently need new crop varieties that are resilient to such results of climate change as droughts and outbreaks of new pests and diseases.
A team led by Jaime Prohens at the Universitat Politècnica de València...
30 Jan 2022
30 Jan 2022
Seed Collecting, Conservation and Collaboration in West Africa
As a young boy growing up in Niger, Hamidou Falalou fell in love with the search for answers and knew he wanted to become a scientist. When, later, he saw climate change threatening local food security, he decided to dedicate his...
27 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022
Five Key Messages from "It Starts with a Seed" at GLF Climate
At the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference earlier this month, global leaders discussed how to best strengthen the world's ability to adapt to increasing climate change impacts. A parallel session at the Global Landscapes Forum...
29 Nov 2021
29 Nov 2021
Crop Trust and the Plant Treaty Launch Lifeline for Genebanks to Secure the Future of Crop Diversity
Climate change, the global pandemic, pest and pathogen outbreaks, and political instability are posing ever-increasing threats to genebanks around the world In response, the Crop Trust and the Secretariat of the International...
6 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021
Deadline Extended for Grant Proposals to Safeguard Seeds in Svalbard
As announced recently, the Crop Trust, in coordination with its partners at NordGen, the Norwegian Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Plant Treaty, are launching a competitive grant scheme to support the backing up of crop...
26 Oct 2021
26 Oct 2021
GLF Climate 2021
GLF Climate: Forests, Food, Finance - Frontiers of Change
November 5, 2021 12:00 AM to November 7, 2021 11:59 PM CET
Online and in-person at the University of Glasgow
From November 5 to 7, climate heroes are gathering...
20 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 - 20 Oct 2021
Perfecting the Potato, With Help From Peru’s Farmers
This World Food Day, the International Potato Center (CIP) announced a new disease-resistant potato developed with the Crop Trust’s support. Called CIP-Matilde, this special spud was developed in collaboration with farmers and...
15 Oct 2021
15 Oct 2021
The Future of Food is Wild
Climate change is making it harder for farmers to grow enough food to feed their families. A new potato variety called CIP-Matilde, developed by the International Potato Center (CIP) with support from the Crop Trust, is the latest...
12 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021
Announcing Support to Back up Crop Collections in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Because seeds don’t last forever, not even in genebanks, the Crop Trust and partners will help genebanks and other seed collection holders in their efforts to regenerate and back up crop diversity collections in the Svalbard...
4 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021
Biodiversity for Food Security: A BOLD Approach
A groundbreaking 10-year project is launching to improve food security and climate resilience globally and support livelihoods, health and wellbeing.
“Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development,” or BOLD, a...
1 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021
Banking on Crop Diversity for Food Security in the Face of Climate Change
Groundbreaking 10-year, USD 58 million project launches to secure future food security and climate resilience globally
BONN, GERMANY, September 27, 2021— The Crop Trust and the Government of Norway are launching a...
27 Sep 2021
27 Sep 2021
Greener Grows the Alfalfa in Chile
“You need to see it to believe it,” says Viviana Barahona, agronomist and extensionist at the Chilean Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) in Cauquenes, Chile.
“Picture this: you are standing in a yellow field, a...
19 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021