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Expert Consultation Group Meeting
-- 29 November to 1 December 2016, Bonn Germany: This week, some of the world’s leading experts on ex situ conservation converge in Bonn at the Crop Trust’s headquarters to discuss the current crop coverage of ex situ collections....
30 Nov 2016
30 Nov 2016 - 30 Nov 2016
Crop Wild Relatives: The Nexus of Conservation and Agriculture
Sir Peter Crane | President OSGF & Crop Trust Executive Board Member
The end of October was a busy time for the Crop Trust with the sixth meeting of the Advisory Group of the Crop Wild Relatives Project, followed immediately by a...
28 Nov 2016
28 Nov 2016
#CropsInColor Q&A with Brent Stirton
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...
23 Nov 2016
23 Nov 2016
The Roots of Eating
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...
22 Nov 2016
22 Nov 2016
News in November
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
Ju...
9 Nov 2016
9 Nov 2016
Does Australia Hold the Key to Food Security?
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...
9 Nov 2016
9 Nov 2016
Break Down Barriers Between Seed Banks and Field Study
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...
9 Nov 2016
9 Nov 2016
Something Worth Fighting For
This is the story of ICARDA beginning anew in Morocco and Lebanon after years of uncertainty in Syria.
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19 Oct 2016
19 Oct 2016
Combatting Climate Change, One Seed at a Time
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....
18 Oct 2016
18 Oct 2016