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Endurance Athlete Michael Haddad to Deliver ICARDA Seeds to Svalbard
Endurance Athlete Michael Haddad is on his way to deliver seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault through his Arctic Walk for Climate Resilience and Food Security.
The United Nations Development Program Regional Goodwill...
2 Jun 2022
Ukraine's Giant Seed Bank at Risk of Being Lost as War Rages
In underground vaults near Ukraine's battlefields, the genetic code for nearly 2,000 crops is in danger of being permanently destroyed.
The risk came into sharp focus earlier this month when a research facility near Ukraine's...
1 Jun 2022
Accessible Software for Accessible Seeds
As any plant breeder and researcher will tell you, it’s all about the data. It’s the data that allows them to make smart choices about the crops they breed, speeding up the process of getting new varieties into farmers’ fields and...
25 May 2022
Global Food Crisis is Leaving Millions Hungry, But There are Solutions
Hundreds of millions of people around the world are going hungry as food prices continue to rise as a result of everything from the coronavirus pandemic to India’s extreme heatwave to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Without meaningful...
23 May 2022
"Our Seeds Could Start the Next Green Revolution"
Q&A with Athanasios Tsivelikas, manager of the ICARDA Morocco genebank.
23 May 2022
Lucy Fisher and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast
Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz joins Lucy Fisher and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast to outline why genebanks are so important and what the Crop Trust is doing to support them. Skip ahead to 27 minutes to hear...
22 May 2022
Priceless Samples from Ukraine's Seed Bank Destroyed in Bomb Attack
Tens of thousands of seed samples that were part of Ukraine's national seed collection have been destroyed by a Russian bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv, according to a video posted on YouTube on 14 May. The collection was the...
19 May 2022
Crop Diversity is the Foundation of Food Sovereignty
On this International Day of Biological Diversity, Ska Mirriam Moteane, a renowned chef from Lesotho, shares her opinion on the importance of crop diversity in overcoming her country’s challenges, and the joy it brings to our...
18 May 2022








