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Crop Trust Dialogue on Genebanks at GLF Biodiversity Conference
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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

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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

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Opinion

A Year Like No Other

2020 Reflections by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director

21 Dec 2020

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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

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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

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Opinion

Hope for Multilateralism Yet

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

10 Dec 2020

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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

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Crop Trust a Finalist for Food Planet Prize

The Global Crop Diversity Trust is honored to be recognized as a finalist for the 2020 Food Planet Prize, which was established by the Curt Bergfors Foundation in Sweden.

“Our food system is broken, and the planet is ailing,”...

27 Nov 2020

27 Nov 2020

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Kenyan Farmers Can Bank on Tree Seeds

Tree genebanks can make a valuable contribution to the food security and incomes of smallholder farmers in developing countries, a new study suggests.

The study, published in the journal Food Security, examined the experiences of...

26 Nov 2020

26 Nov 2020

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