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SCIENCE BRIEF: BIOFORTIFICATION | NO.1

As one of the world’s major staple food crops, wheat is consumed by 35% of the human population, contributing almost 20% of dietary energy and protein to the diets of developing countries....

28 May 2017, World Hunger Day --  Marie Haga, Executive Director of the Crop Trust and Bev Postma, CEO of HarvestPlus, co-author an opinion piece for the Huffington Post, exploring hidden hunger, a hunger caused from mineral and...

A Conversation with Howarth Bouis, Founder and Former Director of HarvestPlus

On a cool day in March, the Crop Trust had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Howarth Bouis, otherwise known as “Howdy”, at our offices in Bonn....

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

The international agricultural research centers have been through a lot during the almost 75 years that have gone by since the first tentative steps were taken towards establishing...

Como parte de la iniciativa “un catálogo de Genesys para datos fenotípicos”, William Solano, ‎‎Investigador en Recursos Genéticos y Biotecnología del CATIE, visitó el Crop Trust. En este blogpost, William nos cuenta un poco sobre...

17 April 2017 -- Fresh Cup Magazine reports on the Crop Trust's Coffee Conservation Strategy, a partnership with World Coffee Research and the story of the Geisha coffee variety.

Lush countryside, rolling rivers and an active,...

6 April 2017 - TIME Magazine covers the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Vault has been dubbed by many as the 'doomsday' vault, conjuring up images of a seed reserve for apocalyptic times. "But it is the much smaller, localized...