Bloomberg: Arctic Vault Stashes More Seeds for Future Food
As reported by Bloomberg, 23 depositors from 21 countries sent boxes of seeds that contain over 30,000 seed samples for safekeeping at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. This underlines the urgent need to preserve crop...
25 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
FAO and the EU support relocation of Ukraine’s national seed collection to a secure site
Unique plant genetic resources have been transported over a thousand kilometres from Kharkiv to the west of Ukraine.
To conserve Ukraine’s agricultural heritage, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the...
28 Apr 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
Does Australia Hold the Key to Food Security?
7 November, 2016 -- Devex's, Lisa Cornish, chats with Marie Haga, Crop Trust's Executive Director and Sally Norton, head of the Australian Grains Genebank, on climate change and why conserving crop diversity, including the wild...
9 Nov 2016
9 Nov 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
Washington Post: Why the World is Storing So Many Seeds in a ‘Doomsday’ Vault
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...
28 Apr 2016
28 Apr 2016