In the Media

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...

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...

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.

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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...

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...

A recent report in Yale Environment 360, titled "Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds" says that the world’s genebanks may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions like...

Kyodo News published an opinion piece by the Crop Trust's Executive Director, Marie Haga, on the 13th of April, highlighting the importance of indigenous crop types and crop diversity conservation in preserving Japan's unique food...

Recent BBC article, titled "Go Wild to Protect Food Security" says that the answers to future food security may be found in the wild relatives of our domesticated food crops and highlights the urgent need to "go wild" and conserve...