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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.

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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...

Luigi Guarino|Director of Science and Programs

Luigi Guarino|Director of Science and Programs

Readers of a certain age may remember a catchy but ever-so-slightly annoying tune from the late 70s called “Escape,” which also went by the even more annoying subtitle of “The Piña...

19 September 2016 - the Svalbard Global Seed Vault’s doors were opened as 53 new boxes of seeds arrived from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The shipment, which included nearly 20,000 accessions of different...

The newest Crop Wild Relatives video is live, highlighting the importance of collecting and capacity building!

Crop wild relatives, the wild cousins of our domesticated crops, are crucial to future food security. Before they can...