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New Video: On Collecting and Capacity Building
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New Video: On Collecting and Capacity Building

The newest Crop Wild Relatives video is live, highlighting the importance of collecting and capacity building!

Crop wild relatives, the wild cousins of our domesticated crops, are crucial to future food security. Before they can...

14 Sep 2016

14 Sep 2016

Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 2
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Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 2

Forages for the Future, Issue 2 now available! After publishing the first issue, there was an overwhelmingly, positive response. The subscription for the newsletter has now doubled and Bruce Pengelly and Brigitte Maass, two...

13 Sep 2016

13 Sep 2016

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New Zealand's First Seed Deposit & More Svalbard News

Institutes from around the world deposited seeds into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this May, marking another step towards ensuring global food security.

The latest seed deposit which included over 8,000 varieties of crops from...

14 Jul 2016

14 Jul 2016

From Lack of Diversity to Lack of Funding, Seed Banks Face a World of Challenges
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From Lack of Diversity to Lack of Funding, Seed Banks Face a World of Challenges

A recent article, published in the Smithsonian online magazine sheds light on the numerous challenges facing genebanks today and discusses everything from the origin of these precious seed repositories to what the perfect system...

17 Jun 2016

17 Jun 2016

Marie Haga: La Diversidad de Cultivos es la Base de la Seguridad Alimentaria
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Marie Haga: La Diversidad de Cultivos es la Base de la Seguridad Alimentaria

Following, the Challengers Future of Food Event, hosted in Barcelona earlier this month, Tech Food Magazine spoke with the Crop Trust's Executive Director, Marie Haga. The Q&A article published in Spanish on the 15th of June,...

15 Jun 2016

15 Jun 2016

Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 1
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Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 1

New newsletter, "Forages for the Future," published today!

After a group of forage and genebank experts came together in Bonn, Germany, last year to start a new forage movement, there was recognition that more actions can be...

2 Jun 2016

2 Jun 2016

CWR Policy Brief: Measuring the State of Conservation of Crop Diversity
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CWR Policy Brief: Measuring the State of Conservation of Crop Diversity

New international agreements on sustainable development and biodiversity conservation explicitly prioritize fully safeguarding the genetic diversity of crops and their wild relatives as well as domesticated animals by 2020.

BONN,...

23 May 2016

23 May 2016

Le Monde: Beyond the Polar Circle, Ten Thousand Years of Agriculture in a "Vault"
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Le Monde: Beyond the Polar Circle, Ten Thousand Years of Agriculture in a "Vault"

Recent Le Monde article, titled 'Au Svalbard, dans la Chambre-forte des semences,' gives readers an inside look at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and explores the importance of conserving crop diversity in the midst of an...

20 May 2016

20 May 2016

Washington Post: Why the World is Storing So Many Seeds in a ‘Doomsday’ Vault
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Washington Post: Why the World is Storing So Many Seeds in a ‘Doomsday’ Vault

Recent Washington Post article, titled "Why the world is storing so many seeds in a ‘doomsday’ vault" sheds some light on why conserving seeds is so critically important not only in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault but in genebanks...

28 Apr 2016

28 Apr 2016

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