World Hunger Day: Why Malnutrition Affects Everyone
28 May 2017, World Hunger Day -- Marie Haga, Executive Director of the Crop Trust and Bev Postma, CEO of HarvestPlus, co-author an opinion piece for the Huffington Post, exploring hidden hunger, a hunger caused from mineral and...
28 May 2017
28 May 2017
Good Genes
17 April 2017 -- Fresh Cup Magazine reports on the Crop Trust's Coffee Conservation Strategy, a partnership with World Coffee Research and the story of the Geisha coffee variety.
Lush countryside, rolling rivers and an active,...
17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017
Inside the 'Doomsday' Vault
6 April 2017 - TIME Magazine covers the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Vault has been dubbed by many as the 'doomsday' vault, conjuring up images of a seed reserve for apocalyptic times. "But it is the much smaller, localized...
6 Apr 2017
6 Apr 2017
The Crop Trust on Looking After Global Food Security
13 March 2017 - New Food Magazine speaks exclusively to Marie Haga.
For those who don’t know, who is the Crop Trust and what do you do?
The Crop Trust’s mandate is to safeguard the many millions of varieties of crops that exist...
13 Mar 2017
13 Mar 2017
From War in Syria to South Sudan Famine: Why the Svalbard 'Doomsday' Vault is Essential for Food Security
9 March 2017 - Marie Haga pens an Opinion Piece for the International Business Times. She writes, "if you're looking to see the need for safeguarding and making crop diversity available, look no further than parts of South Sudan."...
9 Mar 2017
9 Mar 2017
Like a Spike in a Haystack
Como Una Espiga en un Pajar: A Course on Collecting, Processing and Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives
16 dedicated participants from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Chile convened in Chile this January to learn...
27 Feb 2017
27 Feb 2017
Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 3
Forages for the Future, Issue 3 is now available! In this newsletter, Forage scientists, Bruce Pengelly and Brigitte Maass, take stock of the first-year outcomes of implementing the Global Strategy for the Conservation and...
19 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017
The Roots of Eating
Berlin, Germany - 20 November 2016: "What are the 'roots' of our food"? asks Anne Brüning from the German newspaper, die Berliner Zeitung.
In the article, Brüning explains how many of the crops we eat today have originally come...
22 Nov 2016
22 Nov 2016
Does Australia Hold the Key to Food Security?
7 November, 2016 -- Devex's, Lisa Cornish, chats with Marie Haga, Crop Trust's Executive Director and Sally Norton, head of the Australian Grains Genebank, on climate change and why conserving crop diversity, including the wild...
9 Nov 2016
9 Nov 2016