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The Eternal Flame
Can rice breeding cut four minutes off the world’s favorite recipe?
Rice is the most frequently cooked and eaten grain on the planet, with well over a billion cooks bringing a pot to boil every day. It’s a very simple recipe, as...
22 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017
The Crop Trust on Looking After Global Food Security
13 March 2017 - New Food Magazine speaks exclusively to Marie Haga.
For those who don’t know, who is the Crop Trust and what do you do?
The Crop Trust’s mandate is to safeguard the many millions of varieties of crops that exist...
13 Mar 2017
13 Mar 2017
From War in Syria to South Sudan Famine: Why the Svalbard 'Doomsday' Vault is Essential for Food Security
9 March 2017 - Marie Haga pens an Opinion Piece for the International Business Times. She writes, "if you're looking to see the need for safeguarding and making crop diversity available, look no further than parts of South Sudan."...
9 Mar 2017
9 Mar 2017
A Success Story: the Genebank CRP & Quality Management
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
Successes come in all shapes and sizes. You might rightly accuse me of not being fully objective when it comes to the Crop Trust. I am delighted, however, that there are people in high places who...
28 Feb 2017
28 Feb 2017
Like a Spike in a Haystack
Como Una Espiga en un Pajar: A Course on Collecting, Processing and Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives
16 dedicated participants from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Chile convened in Chile this January to learn...
27 Feb 2017
27 Feb 2017
It's Complicated
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
I was really sad to hear that Hans Rosling had died a few days ago. I am instantly mesmerized no matter how often I watch him gesticulating enthusiastically in front of a fancy data...
16 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017
A Turn in Dr Sibbald’s Garden
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
Robert Sibbald is an immensely impressive figure of the late 17th century. He was, for example, the first person to venture a scientific description of the blue whale, originally...
30 Jan 2017
30 Jan 2017