"This is History in the Making."
8 February 2020 | CBS News
With its deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on 25 February 2020, the Cherokee Nation will become the first U.S. tribe to preserve culturally important seeds in the Seed Vault.
Included in the...
13 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020
Preserving Appalachian Biodiversity with Cider Apples
Emily Payne | Food Tank
A quality cider is the result of a fine-tuned recipe, with each apple variety contributing a certain component to the final product, Michael Gutensohn tells Food Tank. Gutensohn is Assistant Professor of...
20 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020
22 People & Organizations Working to Preserve Appalachia's Biodiversity
This fall, Food Tank and the Crop Trust traveled throughout Appalachia to highlight and celebrate its unique food cultures and agricultural diversity. As part of a multi-year, multi-country #CropsInColor campaign, we focused on...
14 Nov 2019
14 Nov 2019
From Coffee to Cosmetics
Companies are Looking for Ways to Protect the Plants Their Products are Made From
The number of plant species in the world is declining, and climate change is poised to reck further havoc on commodity crops. As shrinking natural...
11 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019
Introducing The Food Forever Initiative
The Crop Trust initiated and supports the Food Forever Initiative (FFI), a global partnership which seeks to raise awareness for the importance and urgency of conserving and using agricultural biodiversity. More specifically, the...
9 Jun 2017
9 Jun 2017
The Crop Trust on Looking After Global Food Security
13 March 2017 - New Food Magazine speaks exclusively to Marie Haga.
For those who don’t know, who is the Crop Trust and what do you do?
The Crop Trust’s mandate is to safeguard the many millions of varieties of crops that exist...
13 Mar 2017
13 Mar 2017
New Video: On Collecting and Capacity Building
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...
14 Sep 2016
14 Sep 2016
CWR Policy Brief: Measuring the State of Conservation of Crop Diversity
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.
BONN,...
23 May 2016
23 May 2016
Le Monde: Beyond the Polar Circle, Ten Thousand Years of Agriculture in a "Vault"
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...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016