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International Workshop on Pre-Breeding
International workshop on the promotion of Public-Private Partnerships for Pre-Breeding
2-4 February 2015 Agropolis, Montpellier, France
Introduction
The role of pre-breeding, through the collective action of germplasm curators...
25 Jan 2015
25 Jan 2015 - 25 Jan 2015
Bonn Voices Interviews Marie Haga
Bonn Voices reports on the Crop Trust: Ensuring food security, adapting to climate change, safeguarding biodiversity, protecting nutritional security, reducing poverty and ensuring sustainable agriculture
Ms Haga, can you explain...
21 Jan 2015
21 Jan 2015
Crop Trust Wins Video of the Day Award
The Crop Trust's brand new video, Securing Our Food, Forever, has received the video of the day award by VOTD.TV.
VOTD.TV awarded the Crop Trust and Epic Agency with the Video of the Day Award on 27 January 2015.
The video was...
18 Jan 2015
18 Jan 2015
The Daily Meal on the DivSeek Initiative
The Daily Meal reports on DivSeek "International Partnership Creating Biodiversity Database"
Agricultural gene banks' stores of seeds and organic material may soon be getting their own centralized search engine.
DivSeek, an...
16 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015
First Global Stakeholder Discussion
The Crop Trust's First Stakeholder Discussion was held on 16 January 2015 in Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), during the annual Green Week International Agricultural Fair.
Its...
16 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015 - 16 Jan 2015
SciDevNet Covers DivSeek
SciDevNet explores how 'DivSeek project aims to uncover crops’ hidden genetic data'
A wealth of plant genetic data that could help develop more-resilient and productive crops is being squandered, according to the coalition behind...
12 Jan 2015
12 Jan 2015
O Tempo Reports on Crop Diversity and the Seed Vault
O Tempo in Brazil discussed the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and produced an infographic to explain what's inside.
‘Arca de Noé’ na Noruega tenta garantir comida para o mundo
LITZA MATTOS
Um aumento da temperatura de apenas 1°C...
10 Jan 2015
10 Jan 2015
Science Magazine: 'DivSeek' Aims to Mine the Genetic Treasure in Seed Bank Vaults
Virginia Gewin discusses the launch of DivSeek in Science Magazine.
Agricultural gene banks hope soon to cease serving primarily as warehouses for plant seeds and start capitalizing on the often hidden value of some 7 million...
9 Jan 2015
9 Jan 2015
Seeds of Time
A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food.
Gene banks of the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation...
3 Jan 2015
3 Jan 2015