In the Media

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) announced the launch of the Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants (GCCFP), a new international initiative to coordinate efforts to safeguard the diversity of the...

The New York Botanical Garden and partners have launched the Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants (GCCFP). This new initiative brings together botanical gardens, genebanks, research institutions and other partners to...

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) is pleased to welcome the Crop  Trust as its newest member. Representing Crop Trust will be Jaspreet Stamm, Director of External Affairs and Conrad Rein, Secretary of the...

In an interview with ABC in Australia, Dr. Stefan Schmitz of the Crop Trust sat down with Kath Sullivan to discuss how the Crop Trust continues the vital work of safeguarding global crop diversity. Dr. Schmitz emphasized the...

The World Vegetable Center’s genebank was recently renovated and officially inaugurated at a public ceremony in Tainan on Monday.

Originally funded in 2010 by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the facility was established as...

Now is the time to invest in crop conservation and use it to hedge against the uncertainty caused by instability, conflict, malnutrition, and climatic change.

This is the key message of Crop Trust executive director Stefan...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault marked its 17th anniversary today by opening its doors to receive nearly 14,000 deposits of seeds from around the world, including over 2,000 seed samples from projects supported by the International...

The need for coordinated global action on the cryopreservation of crop diversity is clear, according to a recent article published by CGIAR. Cryopreservation is a technique used to conserve samples of plants that cannot be stored...

The Crop Trust is coordinating the Sweetpotato, a model for food security and long-term conservation of biodiversity project. The Sweetpotato project is featured in the Darwin Initiative’s latest newsletter, Local Learnings from...