All latest news and events
"This is History in the Making."
8 February 2020 | CBS News
With its deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on 25 February 2020, the Cherokee Nation will become the first U.S. tribe to preserve culturally important seeds in the Seed Vault.
Included in the...
13 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020
A Love for Lentils: How World Pulses Day Can Change the Way You Eat
Pulses have a long, rich history. The first evidence of pulses comes from 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East which was home to some of the earliest human civilizations. Today, hundreds of...
10 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020
Menus of the Future Should be Difficult to Decipher
The global food system relies on just a fraction of foods. Just four crops - wheat, rice, maize and potato - provide 60 per cent of our calories. Relying on a limited amount of crops for our food is not only less nutritious but...
28 Jan 2020
28 Jan 2020
How this Arctic Vault Could Provide the Food of the Future
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores duplicate copies of most of the crop diversity in the world. As part of the Our Planet Project, a four-year collaboration between Netflix, Silverback Films and WWF, former Crop Trust Executive...
27 Jan 2020
27 Jan 2020
Preserving Appalachian Biodiversity with Cider Apples
Emily Payne | Food Tank
A quality cider is the result of a fine-tuned recipe, with each apple variety contributing a certain component to the final product, Michael Gutensohn tells Food Tank. Gutensohn is Assistant Professor of...
20 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020
A Little Wild in Our Rice
Scientists are collaborating with farmers in Vietnam in a new project which is striving to develop improved varieties of rice which can withstand the challenges of climate change by tapping into the genetic diversity available in...
15 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020
Orchards, Cold Cider and the Global Strategy for Apple
“Them Crow Eggs, Bellflowers, Staymans, Limbertwigs, they're all sweet little cuties, but there ain't no apple in this world like a Virginia Beauty.” -- Jim Veteto
Jim Veteto strums a self-penned ode on his guitar, a jar of...
7 Jan 2020
7 Jan 2020
The Food Forever Solutions Summit: How the diversity of our foods can help feed us in a changing world
Food of the future was the hot topic at the inaugural Food Forever Solutions Summit earlier this month in Washington, DC. Hosted by Foreign Policy in partnership with the Crop Trust and the Food Forever Initiative, it brought...
23 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019
Breathing New Life into the Global Crop Conservation Strategies
The Crop Trust kicks off a new project funded by the German government.
18 Dec 2019