IRRI Launches New IRG Collection to Accelerate Linking Trait Discovery with Breeding
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has introduced a new Released Variety Panel (RVP), a collection of over 130 sequenced rice varieties. This panel is accessible to breeders and researchers for trait discovery and...
8 Oct 2024
All Hail the Rise of the Climate-Smart Potato
Plus, 5 facts about the humble root vegetable’s extraordinary potential
Sandra Cordon | Global Landscapes Forum
The potential of the potato has only just begun to be realized.
Some 368 million metric tons of potatoes were...
19 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020
Representatives of CWR Project visit Embrapa Temperate Agriculture
Last Monday, a Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) Project delegation visited Embrapa Temperate Agriculture (Pelotas, RS) to learn more about the work of rescuing wild potato relatives - one of the branches of the CWR project in Brazil.
Ma...
11 Jun 2018
11 Jun 2018
World Hunger Day: Why Malnutrition Affects Everyone
28 May 2017, World Hunger Day -- Marie Haga, Executive Director of the Crop Trust and Bev Postma, CEO of HarvestPlus, co-author an opinion piece for the Huffington Post, exploring hidden hunger, a hunger caused from mineral and...
28 May 2017
28 May 2017
Good Genes
17 April 2017 -- Fresh Cup Magazine reports on the Crop Trust's Coffee Conservation Strategy, a partnership with World Coffee Research and the story of the Geisha coffee variety.
Lush countryside, rolling rivers and an active,...
17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017
Like a Spike in a Haystack
Como Una Espiga en un Pajar: A Course on Collecting, Processing and Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives
16 dedicated participants from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Chile convened in Chile this January to learn...
27 Feb 2017
27 Feb 2017
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
Yale Environment 360: Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds
A recent report in Yale Environment 360, titled "Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds" says that the world’s genebanks may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions like...
27 Apr 2016
27 Apr 2016