In the Media

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,...

Professor M S Swaminathan, the Father of Green Revolution in India, writes in the New Indian Express in support of the Crop Trust's work.

In a career spanning many years, I have been driven by one overriding passion: to play...

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...

Countries across the globe are working on means to combat hunger, achieve food security and promote sustainable agriculture. With United Nations (UN) also proposing to make this as the second goal under its sustainable development...

The fight to achieve food security and end hunger is one of the greatest challenges facing the world in the coming decades. Rising populations, diminishing resources and deteriorating environment only raise the stakes.

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Efforts to preserve and protect plant information are accelerating — but not without risks, reports Claire Provost in SciDev.Net.

As an increasingly bloody civil war raged around them, a team of scientists in the Syrian capital...

Saving seeds is not as sexy as say, saving the dolphins, and it doesn’t attract nearly as many Hollywood types to its cause. But preserving plant biodiversity is critical if we want to figure out how to feed nine billion people...

The importance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the work of the Crop Trust in Le Figaro, one of France's biggest newspapers. Story by Marielle Court.

Le projet de centraliser sur l'île de Svalbard la conservation de toutes...