In the Media

Daily Development explores “global development and the people behind it”. In the following interview, Marie Haga, the Executive Director of the Crop Trust, discusses crop diversity, food security, and how and why we all must...

Countries across the globe are working on means to combat hunger, achieve food security and promote sustainable agriculture. With United Nations (UN) also proposing to make this as the second goal under its sustainable development...

The fight to achieve food security and end hunger is one of the greatest challenges facing the world in the coming decades. Rising populations, diminishing resources and deteriorating environment only raise the stakes.

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As climate change makes crop diversity even more important, gene banks struggle to stay afloat. Freelance science journalist Virginia Gewin reports in Ensia, a magazine showcasing environmental solutions in action.

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Efforts to preserve and protect plant information are accelerating — but not without risks, reports Claire Provost in SciDev.Net.

As an increasingly bloody civil war raged around them, a team of scientists in the Syrian capital...

Saving seeds is not as sexy as say, saving the dolphins, and it doesn’t attract nearly as many Hollywood types to its cause. But preserving plant biodiversity is critical if we want to figure out how to feed nine billion people...

Lizzie Wade reports in Wired Magazine: when civil war erupted in Syria, Ahmed Amri, the genebank manager at the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), immediately thought about seeds. 

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Europe must play a leading role in the global effort to protect crop diversity, argues Marie Haga in an exclusive editorial text published in The Parliament Magazine.

Our planet faces unprecedented population growth with the...

The importance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the work of the Crop Trust in Le Figaro, one of France's biggest newspapers. Story by Marielle Court.

Le projet de centraliser sur l'île de Svalbard la conservation de toutes...