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Luis Salazar | Global Crop Diversity Trust 

In his two-decade career, Brent Stirton has focused his work on issues dear to his heart, which include conservation, sustainability and the environment. He has won nine awards from the...

Berlin, Germany - 20 November 2016: "What are the 'roots' of our food"? asks Anne Brüning from the German newspaper, die Berliner Zeitung.

In the article, Brüning explains how many of the crops we eat today have originally come...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

During the last couple of months, we have been organizing events and activities all over the world – from North and Central America to Australia and New Zealand.

Happy days in the Asia-Pacific Region

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7 November, 2016 -- Devex's, Lisa Cornish, chats with Marie Haga, Crop Trust's Executive Director and Sally Norton, head of the Australian Grains Genebank, on climate change and why conserving crop diversity, including the wild...

8 November 2016 -- SciDev publishes opinion piece by Crop Trust's Executive Director, Marie Haga, and Bioversity's Director General, Ann Tutwiler, on breaking down barriers between ex situ and in situ conservation.

Food...

This is the story of ICARDA beginning anew in Morocco and Lebanon after years of uncertainty in Syria.

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The largest agro-biodiversity collection in the world just got a little larger.

Longyearbyen, Norway -- 18 October 2016: A total of 25 boxes containing over 10,000 new accessions enter the Svalbard Global Seed Vault today....

Luigi Guarino|Director of Science and Programs

Luigi Guarino|Director of Science and Programs

Sure, they’ve had a helping hand from scientific plant breeders over the past century or so, but it was farmers who generated and nurtured the bulk of the diversity we find in crops...