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Tim Fischer Finds Aussie Meat Pie in Germany
7 November 2017 - the Weekly Times covers the visit of Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer, to Bonn for our Executive Board Meetings. Tim Fischer is the Crop Trust's newly appointed Executive Board Chair and will...
6 Nov 2017
6 Nov 2017
Crop Trust at UNFCCC COP23
The Crop Trust hosts a series of side events at COP23 for setting an agenda for transforming agricultural development in the face of climate change.
Both part of the cause of climate change, but also part of the solution,...
6 Nov 2017
6 Nov 2017 - 6 Nov 2017
An Endangered Wind-Resilient Bean Enroute to Svalbard
SVALBARD, NORWAY – 16 October 2017 – Seeds of a nearly extinct wild bean, which has evolved a vigorous root system that makes it more resilient to tropical storms, are being deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. On World...
16 Oct 2017
16 Oct 2017
Your Morning Coffee - It Isn't an Unlimited Resource
1 October 2017 - On World Coffee Day, Crop Trust Executive Director, Marie Haga, pens an opinion piece in Business Green, warning that our daily cup of coffee is at risk from climate impacts unless urgent action is taken.
From...
1 Oct 2017
1 Oct 2017
Calling All Coffee Lovers: Let's Save Coffee Together
Friday, 29 September 2017 – Starting today and culminating on Sunday, 1 October 2017, the 77 Member States of the International Coffee Organization (ICO) and dozens of coffee associations around the world are coming together to ...
29 Sep 2017
29 Sep 2017
Genebank Platform holds its first AGM
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
Rome. Ames. Arusha. Izmir. Horsham. Meise.
For the past six years, the managers of some of the world’s most important collections of crop biodiversity have met at annual meetings held in these...
28 Sep 2017
28 Sep 2017
More Than 50,000 Seeds Withdrawn From Seed Vault
SVALBARD, NORWAY – Last week, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) deposited more than 7,500 seed samples for safekeeping in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. At the same time, ICARDA...
13 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017
Los Ingredientes Básicos
Algunos de los cultivos más importantes de la humanidad se originaron en América Latina, como el maíz y la yuca, las patatas y los frijoles, los tomates y los chiles. Todos estos – y muchos otros oriundos de la región – son...
10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017
The Food Forever Initiative
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
2.5 can mean anything. Percent. Degrees. Kilometers. Kilos. Centimeters.
For everyone connected to biodiversity it has a very special meaning. And if you stumble into someone who happens to work with...
3 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017