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Picking Up Where We Left Off
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Picking Up Where We Left Off

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Picking up where we left off: my previous post was published from Lima, Peru, during our last Executive Board meeting. I would like to publicly thank our Board members for their time and support....

28 Apr 2015

28 Apr 2015

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NatGeo: Can Preserving Crop Biodiversity Save the World?

Saving seeds is not as sexy as say, saving the dolphins, and it doesn’t attract nearly as many Hollywood types to its cause. But preserving plant biodiversity is critical if we want to figure out how to feed nine billion people...

22 Apr 2015

22 Apr 2015

Q&A with AfricaRice Genebank Manager
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Q&A with AfricaRice Genebank Manager

Following the recent AfricaRice deposit of 2,400 rice accessions to Svalbard, the Crop Trust sat down with Dr. Marie-Noëlle Ndjiondjop, Head of Genetic Resources Unit and GRiSP Theme 1 Leader for Africa at AfricaRice, to discuss...

22 Apr 2015

22 Apr 2015

In the Media

Wired: Genebank Saved From Syrian Civil War

Lizzie Wade reports in Wired Magazine: when civil war erupted in Syria, Ahmed Amri, the genebank manager at the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), immediately thought about seeds. 

Specifically,...

17 Apr 2015

17 Apr 2015

In the Media

Parliament Magazine: EU Must Make Contribution to Preserve Crop Diversity

Europe must play a leading role in the global effort to protect crop diversity, argues Marie Haga in an exclusive editorial text published in The Parliament Magazine.

Our planet faces unprecedented population growth with the...

10 Apr 2015

10 Apr 2015

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The Gregor Mendel Foundation Honors ICARDA

In a personal account of the event, our Deputy Executive Director Paula Bramel talks about the ceremony, which was held in Berlin on 19 March. 

Last month the Gregor Mendel Foundation awarded its Innovation Prize to Mahmoud Sohl,...

4 Apr 2015

4 Apr 2015

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Le Figaro: Une Arche de Noé des Graines en Norvège

The importance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the work of the Crop Trust in Le Figaro, one of France's biggest newspapers. Story by Marielle Court.

Le projet de centraliser sur l'île de Svalbard la conservation de toutes...

2 Apr 2015

2 Apr 2015

Europolitics: Europe’s Response to a Global Challenge
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Europolitics: Europe’s Response to a Global Challenge

Marie Haga wrote an opinion article fot the web portal Europolitics on the necessity for the European Commission and the EU member states to support and contribute to the conservation of crop diversity.

The European Union has...

1 Apr 2015

1 Apr 2015

CULTURES: Agro-biodiversity & Food Security
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CULTURES: Agro-biodiversity & Food Security

Crop Trust Board member, and President of EMBRAPA, Mauricio Antonio Lopes, Ph.D., contributes to the ASM publication with an article entitled: 'Agricultural Biodiversity and Global Food Security'.

The Russian botanist,...

30 Mar 2015

30 Mar 2015

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