Climate Funding to Support Pacific Seed Crops
The New Zealand government is putting NZD 10 million of its NZD 1.3 billion climate aid fund towards conserving Pacific crop seeds and researching climate-resilient varieties.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Foreign Affairs...
12 Jul 2022
Climate Change Is Shifting How Plants Evolve. Seed Banks May Have to Adapt, Too
The ancestor of your stir-fry might be growing closer than you think. Wild field mustard, or Brassica rapa, is an unassuming plant that reaches a couple of feet tall and produces clusters of small, yellow flowers perched atop...
7 Jul 2022
The Race Against Time To Breed a Wheat To Survive the Climate Crisis
Scientists are testing forgotten wheat varieties from across the world to find those with heat- and drought-tolerant traits.
12 Jun 2022
The World Podcast: Ukraine Seed Bank Under Threat by Russian Invasion
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed lots of the country's infrastructure. Housing, roads, train stations and government buildings have been destroyed by Russia's military. Now, the country's main seed bank is under...
3 Jun 2022
Ukraine's Giant Seed Bank at Risk of Being Lost as War Rages
In underground vaults near Ukraine's battlefields, the genetic code for nearly 2,000 crops is in danger of being permanently destroyed.
The risk came into sharp focus earlier this month when a research facility near Ukraine's...
1 Jun 2022
Global Food Crisis is Leaving Millions Hungry, But There are Solutions
Hundreds of millions of people around the world are going hungry as food prices continue to rise as a result of everything from the coronavirus pandemic to India’s extreme heatwave to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Without meaningful...
23 May 2022
Lucy Fisher and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast
Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz joins Lucy Fisher and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast to outline why genebanks are so important and what the Crop Trust is doing to support them. Skip ahead to 27 minutes to hear...
22 May 2022
Priceless Samples from Ukraine's Seed Bank Destroyed in Bomb Attack
Tens of thousands of seed samples that were part of Ukraine's national seed collection have been destroyed by a Russian bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv, according to a video posted on YouTube on 14 May. The collection was the...
19 May 2022
Africa’s Forgotten Crops Could Offset Growing Food Insecurity
The work of Crop Trust scientists was highlighted in this editorial by Michel Edmond Ghanem on behalf of 21 signatories in the journal Nature.
3 May 2022