How Fiery Desert Chilis Can Protect Us from Climate Change
A landscape of thorny agaves, cacti, mesquite trees, and rock is not the first place one might imagine searching for the future of food. How could such a hot, dry place contain some of the keys to nourishing the world?
Colin...
22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019
How CGIAR is Feeding Our Future
"What’s for dinner?
It’s a question asked every day in homes around the world. No other organization has done as much to ensure families—especially the poorest—have an answer to that question as CGIAR, the world’s largest global...
10 Jul 2019
10 Jul 2019
Top Chefs Cook up the Food of the Future: Hosted at Google's NYC Office
25th September – New York City, USA – Crickets, algae and unusual edible plants will be on the menu today as chefs and leaders from business and politics get together to taste the future of food at Google’s office in New York...
25 Sep 2018
25 Sep 2018
Representatives of CWR Project visit Embrapa Temperate Agriculture
Last Monday, a Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) Project delegation visited Embrapa Temperate Agriculture (Pelotas, RS) to learn more about the work of rescuing wild potato relatives - one of the branches of the CWR project in Brazil.
Ma...
11 Jun 2018
11 Jun 2018
Tim Fischer Finds Aussie Meat Pie in Germany
7 November 2017 - the Weekly Times covers the visit of Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer, to Bonn for our Executive Board Meetings. Tim Fischer is the Crop Trust's newly appointed Executive Board Chair and will...
6 Nov 2017
6 Nov 2017
Your Morning Coffee - It Isn't an Unlimited Resource
1 October 2017 - On World Coffee Day, Crop Trust Executive Director, Marie Haga, pens an opinion piece in Business Green, warning that our daily cup of coffee is at risk from climate impacts unless urgent action is taken.
From...
1 Oct 2017
1 Oct 2017
Forages for the Future, Issue 4
Forages for the Future, Issue 4 is now available! In this newsletter, Forage scientists, Bruce Pengelly and Brigitte Maass, discuss priorities for 2017 and beyond. These priorities include encouraging the adoption of...
19 Jul 2017
19 Jul 2017
The Arctic’s Doomsday Depository that Could Save Plant Life from Climate Change
3 July 2017 -- The Independent reports on the world's most important freezer: "Built to house as many as five million seed varieties, in the most extreme circumstances, the vault is intended to act as a “doomsday” depository for...
3 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017
Introducing The Food Forever Initiative
The Crop Trust initiated and supports the Food Forever Initiative (FFI), a global partnership which seeks to raise awareness for the importance and urgency of conserving and using agricultural biodiversity. More specifically, the...
9 Jun 2017
9 Jun 2017