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Our Food System Isn't Ready for the Climate Crisis
The world's farms produce only a handful of varieties of bananas, avocados, coffee and other foods – leaving them more vulnerable to the climate breakdown
14 Apr 2022
‘Diversity Trees’ Shed Light on Gaps in Genebank Seed Collections
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 2.5 calls on the world to maintain the genetic diversity of food. This includes cultivated plants, domesticated livestock and their related wild species.
The goal’s formal deadline...
13 Apr 2022
Conserving Natural Capital to Ensure Our Future Food Supply
"Nature is more than a mere economic good. Nature nurtures and nourishes us, so we will think of assets as durable entities that not only have use value, but may also have intrinsic worth. Once we make that extension, the...
7 Apr 2022
GLF Climate 2022
Hosted alongside UNFCCC COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh and digitally.
6 Apr 2022
11 Nov 2022 - 12 Nov 2022
United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP27
The 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. This global climate summit seeks to address the climate crisis through multilateral, collective action.
6 Apr 2022
6 Nov 2022 - 18 Nov 2022
Crop Diversity Day 2022
Join us for an evening of dialogue and networking, and connect with policymakers and scientists in lively debate on the critical challenges facing our food systems.
6 Apr 2022
27 Sep 2022
Ninth Session of the Governing Body
The Ninth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) will address items on general policy and implementation of the International Plant Treaty for Food...
5 Apr 2022
19 Sep 2022 - 24 Sep 2022
Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit - June 2022
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opens for the second time in 2022 to accept new seeds from the world’s genebanks.
Learn more.
Members of the media are welcome to attend. To register, please contact media@croptrust.org.
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5 Apr 2022
6 Jun 2022 - 10 Jun 2022
International Day for Biological Diversity 2022
May 22 each year marks the International Day for Biological Diversity. This year, the theme is “building a shared future for all life" to highlight that biodiversity is the foundation upon which we can build back better.
Biodiver...
1 Apr 2022
22 May 2022