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Local Solutions to a Global Challenge and How India Can Usher in Zero Hunger
In the Media

Local Solutions to a Global Challenge and How India Can Usher in Zero Hunger

Professor M S Swaminathan, the Father of Green Revolution in India, writes in the New Indian Express in support of the Crop Trust's work.

In a career spanning many years, I have been driven by one overriding passion: to play...

15 Aug 2015

15 Aug 2015

Daily Development: In Crops We Trust
In the Media

Daily Development: In Crops We Trust

Daily Development explores “global development and the people behind it”. In the following interview, Marie Haga, the Executive Director of the Crop Trust, discusses crop diversity, food security, and how and why we all must...

14 Aug 2015

14 Aug 2015

Agriculture Facing Biggest Threat Ever
In the Media

Agriculture Facing Biggest Threat Ever

Countries across the globe are working on means to combat hunger, achieve food security and promote sustainable agriculture. With United Nations (UN) also proposing to make this as the second goal under its sustainable development...

9 Aug 2015

9 Aug 2015

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Financing for Development Side Event

Sometimes things happen very quickly at the Crop Trust. In an effort to diversify the funding mechanisms of the Crop Trust we have been working with Deutsche Bank on a new private-public initiative.

The Crop Trust's Marie...

10 Jul 2015

10 Jul 2015 - 10 Jul 2015

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Four Things That Keep A Genebank Manager Awake At Night

Dave Ellis, Genebank Manager at CIP in Lima, Peru, shares with our Crop Topics readers his views and concerns regarding the present state and future challenges of plant genetic resources conservation around the world.

We know...

6 Jul 2015

6 Jul 2015

Nature’s Answer to Eggplant Angst
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Nature’s Answer to Eggplant Angst

 

S. Aarayiammal (45) of Irumputhipatty near here, who has been yearning for a good spell of rain, feels so relaxed now thanks to the unseasonal rain in different parts of the district.

Ever since the intermittent rains lashed...

3 Jul 2015

3 Jul 2015

In the Media

European Seed: Why Crop Diversity Matters

The fight to achieve food security and end hunger is one of the greatest challenges facing the world in the coming decades. Rising populations, diminishing resources and deteriorating environment only raise the stakes.

European...

19 Jun 2015

19 Jun 2015

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Letter to the Donors of the CGIAR

To the Donors of the CGIAR

The Global Crop Diversity Trust has been established by the FAO and the CGIAR to secure and make available crop diversity for global food security and nutrition. Since 2012, through the Genebank CRP, the...

10 Jun 2015

10 Jun 2015

Open Letter to the Guardian, by Crop Trust Executive Director
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Open Letter to the Guardian, by Crop Trust Executive Director

In reference to:  http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/20/the-doomsday-vault-seeds-save-post-apocalyptic-worl

Dear Sir,

Your recent article on the Svalbard Seed Vault highlights the Crop Trust’s work to ensure the...

23 May 2015

23 May 2015

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