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African Genebanks Move from Strength to Strength
Dr. Janny van Beem, the Crop Trust’s Quality Management Systems expert, uses the image of a staircase to illustrate how quality management is a gradual and continuous process: you build your way up, one step at a time, creating...
13 Jan 2021
13 Jan 2021
Crop Trust-Led Panel on Pre-Breeding at GLF Biodiversity Conference
The importance of the world’s biodiversity cannot be understated and similarly, the uses of agrobiodiversity cannot be underestimated—or ignored.
The Crop Trust’s session Food Forever: Biodiversity for Resilience at the GLF...
7 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021
Crop Trust Dialogue on Genebanks at GLF Biodiversity Conference
Protecting and harnessing the earth’s biodiversity is more critical than ever to tackle urgent issues like climate change and hunger.
The GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World - One Health brought together over 5,000...
5 Jan 2021
5 Jan 2021
Biodiversity for Resilience Video Series
Agrobiodiversity underpins nearly everything we eat and drink, yet few people understand what it is or how the diversity of crops and livestock contribute to what we find on our plates. To strengthen this connection, we are...
28 Dec 2020
28 Dec 2020
A Year Like No Other
2020 Reflections by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director
21 Dec 2020
A Year Like No Other
2020 reflections by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director
For everyone in the world, 2020 has been a year like no other.
The global pandemic has left no one...
21 Dec 2020
21 Dec 2020
US Crop Wild Relatives Desperately Need Conserving
From sunflowers to blueberries, cranberries and blackberries to pecans and squash, the United States is home to a variety of widely eaten crops and their wild relatives. Unfortunately, many of these wild cousins of familiar crops...
18 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020
Hope for Multilateralism Yet
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science
I think it’s fair to say that things have not been going very well for multilateralism lately. Quite apart from what’s been happening in politics around the world, but possibly connected to it,...
10 Dec 2020
10 Dec 2020