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Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz at GLF Climate: We Depend on Seeds for Survival
The Crop Trust's Executive Director, Stefan Schmitz, delivered a keynote speech at the 2021 Global Landscape Forum Climate Conference "Food, Forests, Finance" about the importance of crop diversity to food security.
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11 Nov 2021
11 Nov 2021
Crop Trust Finance Director Janet Muir on Sustainable Finance Solutions at GLF Climate
The Crop Trust's Director of Finance, Janet Muir, delivered a keynote speech at the 5th Investment Case symposium of the 2021 Global Landscape Forum Climate Conference "Food, Forests, Finance" about innovative and sustainable...
9 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021
Norwegian Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim at GLF Climate 2021
Listen to Norwegian Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim's keynote speech at GLF Climate, where she discusses the Crop Trust's BOLD Project and the Emergency Reserve for Genebanks.
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6 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021
Genebanks Secured from Threats: a Big Step Forward for Biodiversity
Emergency Reserve to provide a financial lifeline to genebanks is announced by the Crop Trust and the Plant Treaty Secretariat.
6 Nov 2021
Crop Trust and the Plant Treaty Launch Lifeline for Genebanks to Secure the Future of Crop Diversity
Climate change, the global pandemic, pest and pathogen outbreaks, and political instability are posing ever-increasing threats to genebanks around the world In response, the Crop Trust and the Secretariat of the International...
6 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021
Giving Diversity a Chance
We at the Global Crop Diversity Trust work to make sure that food has a future. So, imagine our excitement when we found that a recent edition of The Economist included a Technology Quarterly—and indeed an accompanying leader— on…...
29 Oct 2021
Giving Diversity a Chance
By Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director, and Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust Director of Science
We at the Global Crop Diversity Trust work to make sure that food has a future. So, imagine our excitement when we found that a...
29 Oct 2021
29 Oct 2021
Deadline Extended for Grant Proposals to Safeguard Seeds in Svalbard
As announced recently, the Crop Trust, in coordination with its partners at NordGen, the Norwegian Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Plant Treaty, are launching a competitive grant scheme to support the backing up of crop...
26 Oct 2021
26 Oct 2021
GLF Climate 2021
GLF Climate: Forests, Food, Finance - Frontiers of Change
November 5, 2021 12:00 AM to November 7, 2021 11:59 PM CET
Online and in-person at the University of Glasgow
From November 5 to 7, climate heroes are gathering...
20 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 - 20 Oct 2021