Ensuring Food Security

Plant Breeders Innovate Against Climate Change 

Vietnam's agriculture is at a crossroads. Extreme weather events, higher temperatures and unpredictable rainfall are putting pressure on the country’s food supply and disrupting...

As seed multiplication efforts for the durum wheat variety Jawahir continue, farmers in drought-stricken regions of Morocco get a first taste of its potential.

BONN, GERMANY, 17 June 2025 – “We prefer not to plant. It’s too dry,”...

As genebanks around the world deposit seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week, the focus is on how crop diversity reflects cultural heritage.

LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY, 3 June 2025 – Fourteen genebanks will deposit...

Devex reports from the lively World Seed Congress in Istanbul, where seeds – and their role in ensuring the future of food – took center stage. In a keynote and panel, World Food Prize laureate Dr. Cary Fowler and Crop Trust...

Tagesspiegel Background reports on the state of global food security, emphasizing the need for peace, funding and a strategic mix of humanitarian interventions to fight hunger.

The article notes that funding cuts from major...

In this edition, our Seed Heroes series pays tribute to U.S. scientist Jack Harlan. His plant collection expeditions and profound multidisciplinary knowledge helped shape the future of crop diversity conservation and genebanks.

BONN, GERMANY, May 14, 2025 – On May 12-13, global leaders and experts convened in Bonn, Germany, for the first stakeholder meeting of the Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security.

With an estimated 735 million people...

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) is pleased to welcome the Crop  Trust as its newest member. Representing Crop Trust will be Jaspreet Stamm, Director of External Affairs and Conrad Rein, Secretary of the...

Every year, the Philippines braces for an average of 20 typhoons. And every year, the scientists at the National Plant Genetic Resources Laboratory (NPGRL) in Los Baños do a lot of worrying. The next storm could erase decades of...

The World Vegetable Center’s genebank was recently renovated and officially inaugurated at a public ceremony in Tainan on Monday.

Originally funded in 2010 by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the facility was established as...