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A year ago, a small but influential group of crop diversity experts gathered at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in northern Italy to discuss a shared concern: the loss of vegetable biodiversity – and how to stop it.

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On a spring evening in Rome, leaders interested in global food security gathered for the German Embassy’s Climate Talks to discuss the very foundation of food – crop diversity. Ambassador Andreas von Brandt, Permanent...

Daniel Frans van Gilst, Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), is a long-time supporter of global crop diversity conservation, as well as the Crop Trust’s BOLD project. He recently shared his...

I grew up in a multi-ethnic community in the suburbs of a town in Inner Mongolia, in northern China. My grandmother is a farmer and has had a great influence on me. She often takes me back to the village where she grew up and...

BONN, GERMANY, 2 March 2026 – The Crop Trust kicks off 2026 with new leadership that brings new vision to the effort to secure the future of food. Three new members were appointed to the Executive Board, each with decades of...

LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY, 25 February 2026 – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened for its first deposit event of 2026 today. Seeds from two new countries, Guatemala and Niger, were deposited for the first time, and the Seed Vault...