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Healthy Agriculture Starts with Healthy Seeds
Genebanks and germplasm health units play a key role in ensuring plant health by protecting their seed collections from pests and diseases and by sharing seeds that are free of pests and pathogens with breeders and farmers around...
11 May 2022
Securing Our Food, Forever
The Crop Trust is an international organization working to safeguard crop diversity, forever. Our mission is to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity worldwide.
9 May 2022
Landrace Conservation Offers Hope in Race to Collect Crop Diversity
A new global analysis is a big step in assessing the maintained diversity of landraces within 25 major crops in the genebanks worldwide.
9 May 2022
Cary Fowler Appointed U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security
The Crop Trust is delighted to congratulate its former Executive Director Cary Fowler on his new role as the United State’s Special Envoy for Global Food Security.
This comes amidst heightened awareness about food insecurity...
6 May 2022
Africa’s Forgotten Crops Could Offset Growing Food Insecurity
The work of Crop Trust scientists was highlighted in this editorial by Michel Edmond Ghanem on behalf of 21 signatories in the journal Nature.
3 May 2022
Food Prices Are on the Rise – And the Global South Will Be Hit Hardest
By Stefan Schmitz, published in the Independent
28 Apr 2022
Introducing the New Rhodes College Fellow
Maya Searle, a senior health equity major from Knoxville, TN, has been awarded The Steve and Riea Lainoff Crop Trust Fellowship in Honor of Cary Fowler ’71. The fellowship is made possible through the generosity of Steve and Riea...
20 Apr 2022
Seed Banks: the Last Line of Defense Against a Threatening Global Food Crisis
As climate breakdown and worldwide conflict continue to place the food system at risk, seed banks from the Arctic to Lebanon try to safeguard biodiversity.
15 Apr 2022
Our Food System Isn't Ready for the Climate Crisis
The world's farms produce only a handful of varieties of bananas, avocados, coffee and other foods – leaving them more vulnerable to the climate breakdown
14 Apr 2022