In the Media

Grist Online reports on report on Crop Wild Relatives: "Wild thing, I think I need you: How weeds could save dinner"

Who needs weeds? In a climate-changed world, we all do.

Wild relatives of potatoes, peas, eggplants, and...

The Guardian reports on the addition of Brazilian beans and Japanese Barley to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Some 20,000 plant species from more than 100 countries and institutions will be added to the global seed bank in...

The New Indian Express reports on the importance of conserving seeds in genebanks.

Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, who hails from Norway has called for the conservation of seeds in gene banks so...

The Hindu reports on Marie Haga's lecture at the invitation of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation.

Ms. Haga, a former politician from Norway, was in Chennai on Friday to deliver the millennium lecture on ‘Feeding a growing...

Thomson Reuters Foundation reports on the contribution of Norway to the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund.

24 September 2013, Muscat, Oman - The government of Norway has pledged $23.7 million to conserve and sustainably manage the...

About a dozen representatives from Iowa’s agriculture industry joined the leaders of a global foundation in Des Moines Tuesday to discuss the group’s efforts to rescue and preserve the world’s crop varieties.

The Global Crop...

Dr. Paula Bramel penned an editorial in the Des Moines Register on the importance of crop diversity: "Hungry world must conserve crop diversity."

Within the next 10 years, a billion more people will be living on the planet. In...

The Ames Tribune reports on the Annual Genebank Managers Meeting held in Ames, Iowa this year.

People from across the world have made their way to Ames to take part in an annual meeting talking about the future of the world’s...

Nature highlights report that finds that more than half of the wild relatives of 29 globally important crops are not adequately conserved in seed banks.