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Helping Data Leave Home
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
The relationship between scientists and their data can be a lot like that between overprotective parents and their children. You know you’ll have to let them go eventually, but...
22 Mar 2018
22 Mar 2018
The Vavilov Collection Connection
This week, the Crop Trust's Executive Board holds its semi-annual meeting at the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) in St. Petersburg, Russia. The meeting is just one of many collaborative activities between...
19 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018
The World's "Coolest" Insurance Policy Turns 10
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
Ten years ago, a group of plant scientists, politicians, engineers, media and more gathered on a snow-covered mountain on the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, for the opening of a unique facility: the...
14 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018
A Conversation with Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank
Cierra Martin, Crop Trust
8 March 2018 – On International Women’s Day, the Crop Trust connects with Danielle Nierenberg, Co-founder and President of Food Tank, a nonprofit organization focused on building a global community for...
8 Mar 2018
8 Mar 2018
Vitamin A-Biofortified Maize: Exploiting Native Genetic Variation for Nutrient Enrichment
Science Brief: Biofortification | No.2
Vitamin A is important in immune function. Approximately one third of children under the age of five are at risk for Vitamin A deficiency (WHO 2009). This is the leading cause of preventable...
19 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018
Feasibility Study for a Safety Back-up Cryopreservation Facility
This study was commissioned by Bioversity International, the International Potato Center (CIP) and the Crop Trust with financial support from Australia, Germany and Switzerland to investigate the feasibility of establishing a...
19 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018
Documenting the Value of Genebanks
By Melinda Smale and Nelissa Jamora
The CGIAR Genebank Platform, with support from the Crop Trust, is establishing a ‘Genebank Impacts Fellowship Program’.
The program, led by Melinda Smale and Nelissa Jamora, will provide...
14 Feb 2018
14 Feb 2018
“There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch”
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
It’s still so early in the year, but already I’m quite sure we have just witnessed one of it highlights: a lunch with the Crop Trust’s Global Patron, His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales at his...
4 Feb 2018
4 Feb 2018







