In the Media

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."...

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...

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...

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...

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...

8 November 2016 -- SciDev publishes opinion piece by Crop Trust's Executive Director, Marie Haga, and Bioversity's Director General, Ann Tutwiler, on breaking down barriers between ex situ and in situ conservation.

Food...

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...

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...

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...