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Data and information systems make our lives easier, in our personal capacity and in our workspace, allowing us to access the information we need with ease and efficiency. In the world of plant genetic...

Under the Crop Wild Relatives Project, researchers from Bangladesh, Pakistan and the US have teamed up to develop carrots adapted to a hotter, drier and overall changing climate. As our cultivated carrots are highly sensitive to...

The Crop Trust initiated and supports the Food Forever Initiative (FFI), a global partnership which seeks to raise awareness for the importance and urgency of conserving and using agricultural biodiversity. More specifically, the...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

On 28 April, at the G-20 meeting in Berlin, the Crop Trust hosted an Expert Panel entitled: Beyond talk: how to put private capital to work for the future of agriculture. The follow up will be at the ...

Marie Haga | Marie’s Corner

SCIENCE BRIEF: BIOFORTIFICATION | NO.1

As one of the world’s major staple food crops, wheat is consumed by 35% of the human population, contributing almost 20% of dietary energy and protein to the diets of developing countries....

28 May 2017, World Hunger Day --  Marie Haga, Executive Director of the Crop Trust and Bev Postma, CEO of HarvestPlus, co-author an opinion piece for the Huffington Post, exploring hidden hunger, a hunger caused from mineral and...

A Conversation with Howarth Bouis, Founder and Former Director of HarvestPlus

On a cool day in March, the Crop Trust had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Howarth Bouis, otherwise known as “Howdy”, at our offices in Bonn....

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs