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Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz at GLF Climate: We Depend on Seeds for Survival
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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

Norwegian Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim at GLF Climate 2021
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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

Drought resistance rice sampling at the International Rice Research Institute IRRI in the Philippines. Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images.
In the Media

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
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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

Bags of rice at Vietnam market
Opinion

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

Bags of rice at Vietnam market
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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
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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

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