Not Just K-crops on Korean Dinner Tables
Just as the colorful mosaic of banchan dishes enhances a dinner table, Korean – and global – food security is enhanced by crop diversity. Dishes such as kimchi, bibimbap and japchae all contain crops that originated in far-away...
12 Jun 2023
123 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2023
The efforts of food and agriculture systems advocates will continue in 2023 to bring awareness and advocacy to some of our most pressing problems.
Food Tank is highlighting 123 organizations - including the Crop Trust - to follow...
30 Dec 2022
How Changing Diets Leave Us Exposed to War, Extreme Weather and Market Turbulence
The convergence of global diets means just three crops provide 50% of the world’s calories. When shocks come, they hurt.
Bagels in New York. Cakes in Beijing. Instant noodles in Jakarta. Daily habits for billions, yet just a...
21 Dec 2022
Biodiversity protection “window of opportunity is closing,” warn scientists at COP15
Authorities are trying to adopt a new set of goals to prevent and reverse the loss of nature. At COP15 in Montreal, delegates are discussing a global biodiversity framework with clear targets for overexploitation, pollution and...
16 Dec 2022
‘Without Nature, We Have Nothing’: Un Chief Sounds Alarm at Key Un Biodiversity Event
The UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, began on Tuesday in Montreal, Canada, where negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, due by human activity.
The conference is...
6 Dec 2022
More Funding Needed for Climate Adaptation, as Risks Mount
Countries must urgently ramp up action to adapt to the current and future impacts of climate change, as efforts now are too little and too slow, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) said in its latest report, published on Thursday.
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4 Nov 2022
Iraq and Uruguay Deposit Crop Seeds at Arctic Doomsday Vault
At the last opening of the year, tightly packed seed packets from Iraq and Uruguay join more than 45,000 seed samples of crops from across the globe to be deposited deep inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
A vault built on an...
12 Oct 2022
Is a Pandemic the Time to Think About Genebanks?
Reasons to consider seeds in the time of the coronavirus
By Luigi Guarino, Director or Science and Charlotte Lusty, Head of Programs and Genebank Platform Coordinator
Perhaps you think that the middle of a global pandemic is not...
25 Apr 2020
25 Apr 2020
We Need Each Other, We Feed Each Other
Simran Sethi | Medium
Last week, the government of Norway, Crop Trust and Nordic Genetic Resource Centre — entities that jointly support the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — hosted a historic Seed Summit culminating in the largest...
9 Mar 2020
9 Mar 2020