CGIAR: Leave No Crops Behind - The Case for Cryopreservation
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...
27 Jan 2025
Darwin Initiative: Sweetpotato Project Strengthens Communities
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...
13 Dec 2024
The New York Times: The World’s Doomsday Plant Vault Gets Thousands of New Seeds
The world’s seed savers are racing to safeguard the world’s crop diversity in “the world’s doomsday garden shed,” writes Amelia Nierenberg in her The New York Times report of the final 2024 depositor event at the Svalbard Global...
29 Oct 2024
Food Tank: From Neglect to Nourishment - Africa’s New Plan to Revitalize Vegetable Biodiversity
A new initiative led by the World Vegetable Center aims to address hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and the climate crisis by rescuing and conserving the biodiversity of African vegetables.
The launch of the African Vegetable...
17 Sep 2024
Forbes: Top Banana - America’s Favorite Fruit Confronts An Uncertain Future
It’s easy to take bananas for granted. Walk into any U.S. supermarket, no matter how poorly stocked, and there they are. Bananas top the list of fresh fruit sold in this country—the average American consumes nearly 27 pounds of...
3 Jul 2024
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