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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.
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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
New Seed Bank to Support Agriculture of the Future
As he points to a white shelf that holds bean seeds, Austrian biologist Peter Wenzl explains that one of them, obtained in Ecuador, provided a gene for the discovery that major seed protein arcelin offers resistance to the bean...
30 Mar 2022
Opinion: Out of Ukraine War, a Plan for Africa's Food Security
A foreign conflict has exposed Africa’s dependence on imports and is galvanising action to boost local food production and tackle climate threats.
28 Mar 2022
Celebrating the Crop Wild Relatives Project
After more than a decade of adapting our agriculture to climate change, the pioneering Crop Wild Relatives Project came to an end. Here's a look back at this global initiative.
24 Mar 2022