In the Media

This fall, Food Tank and the Crop Trust traveled throughout Appalachia to highlight and celebrate its unique food cultures and agricultural diversity. As part of a multi-year, multi-country #CropsInColor campaign, we focused on...

Companies are Looking for Ways to Protect the Plants Their Products are Made From

The number of plant species in the world is declining, and climate change is poised to reck further havoc on commodity crops. As shrinking natural...

Emily Payne | Food Tank

“Comfort food is for cowards, that ain’t what we do here,” Chef Marion Ohlinger tells Food Tank. A 12th-generation West Virginian, Ohlinger was born and raised on his family farm and now owns Hill & Hollow...

Climate change demands a food revolution. Faced with heat, drought, pests and diseases, the crops we eat every day could become relics in a generation or less, at least where they are currently grown.

Take coffee. Right now, the...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...