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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
‘Diversity Trees’ Shed Light on Gaps in Genebank Seed Collections
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 2.5 calls on the world to maintain the genetic diversity of food. This includes cultivated plants, domesticated livestock and their related wild species.
The goal’s formal deadline...
13 Apr 2022
Conserving Natural Capital to Ensure Our Future Food Supply
"Nature is more than a mere economic good. Nature nurtures and nourishes us, so we will think of assets as durable entities that not only have use value, but may also have intrinsic worth. Once we make that extension, the...
7 Apr 2022