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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

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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

ICRISAT’s Damaris Odeny. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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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

Woman sorting beans in Rwanda
In the Media

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

Vials of plantlets in genebank
In the Media

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

In the Media

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

Opinion

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

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