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The Crop Trust’s Seeds for Resilience project is supporting genebanks in Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Ghana to improve their capacity to conserve their collections of crop diversity and make them available to scientists...

Tasty Local Insight from the GLF Bonn Digital Conference 2020

This article is part of a series on sustainable food produced in collaboration with the Global Landscapes Forum

At the Global Landscape Forum’s 2020 digital...

Early this year, the Crop Trust’s very own Luis Salazar visited Argentina, where our Crop Wild Relatives Project pre-breeding partners from the National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA in the Spanish acronym) are...

At the GLF Bonn 2020 digital conference on food in the time of crises, Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz gave an inspirational talk about the importance of crop diversity and the need for us to rethink our food systems....

The crop diversity in CGIAR's international genebanks continues to be in great demand. That's music to the ears of genebank managers, who naturally want to see their carefully conserved collections put to good use. But it also...

Taking stock on World Hunger Day, more than 820 million people around the world do not have enough to eat. The vast majority of these people live in developing countries. According to the Hunger Project, half of the world’s hungry...

How the world's most famous seed vault defends plants against their next big outbreak

Simran Sethi | The Counter

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In March, plant physiologist Stephanie Greene zipped herself into a padded snowsuit made to...

Tim Farin | KfW

While the world is talking of a crisis in international cooperation, the Crop Trust and its partners in countries around the world are creating a global system to secure our future food supply. To achieve this...