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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...

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...

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."...

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...

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...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

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...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

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...