In the Media

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...

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...

The University of Okayama in Japan and Seed Savers Exchange in the United States recently deposited samples of some of the world's most celebrated crops including barley, carrot, tomato, and other vegetables into the Svalbard...

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...

An article by Cary Fowler on food security and the importance of rice published in Korean news in the Chosun Daily on the 7th of September. 

Rice is not just Korea’s most important food, it is the world’s most important. And,...

The Crop Trust's Executive Director speaks to the Indian Economic Times on the importance on global seed crop diversity and conservation.

MUMBAI: With the twin challenges of population growth and climate change, there is a need...

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...

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.

During the...

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...