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Last week Izmir hosted more than 80 of the world’s leading scientists in the field of plant genetic resources. As a meeting of scientists responsible for the safeguarding of crop diversity around the world, the meeting could not...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Let us start this month's 'Corner' with the scientific work and mention the following:

A visit of our staff and to negotiate collecting agreements in Latin America finally came to an end in mid Septemer...

Below is the Crop Trust's report, delivered by Marie Haga, to the participants of the Sixth session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty (GB6) held in Rome, Italy, from 5 to 9 October 2015.

Mr. Chair,

Distinguished...

Luigi Guarino | Director of the Science Program

Luigi Guarino 

The God Particle and the Doomsday Vault: I was half expecting the divine connection that could be read into those names to be ecstatically seized upon during the recent media hysteria over the unveiling of the...

The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has requested the backup seed that they deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to restart their collection away from the horrors of the Syrian Civil...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Potatoes From Peru

Two weeks ago a delegation of farmers from the Potato Park deposited potato seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Personally I find any seed deposit very touching and I’m humbled...

25 years of international exchange of plant genetic resources:  WHY The multilateral system needs a global management

- A Conversation between Luigi Guarino, Michael Halewood and Gea Galluzzi -

The research paper “Twenty five...

An article by Cary Fowler on food security and the importance of rice published in Korean news in the Chosun Daily on the 7th of September. 

Rice is not just Korea’s most important food, it is the world’s most important. And,...