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Chefs' Manifesto Podcast - Potato: the Prolific Tuber
Season 3 - Episode 1
Ever wondered about the history of potato? Mashed or fried, this crop has had an impact on cuisines from around the world. Irish chef Janice Bracken and Peruvian chef Diego Oka discuss the history and impact...
25 Jan 2021
Let’s Meet Up for Tea
A global consortium on tea genetic resources will benefit tea-growing countries around the world, according to Professor Liang Chen, curator of the world’s largest collection of tea diversity and co-author of the Crop Trust’s Glob...
20 Jan 2021
20 Jan 2021
A New Decade for Biodiversity Protection
The new year is upon us, ushering in an updated Global Biodiversity Framework for the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), covering the period 2021 to 2030 and beyond.
But with a new year comes the reminder that biodiversity...
15 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021
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







