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Kyodo News published an opinion piece by the Crop Trust's Executive Director, Marie Haga, on the 13th of April, highlighting the importance of indigenous crop types and crop diversity conservation in preserving Japan's unique food...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Dear Executive Board Members and Observers,

The highlights of the month of March were the finalization of the CGIAR Genebank Platform proposal (2017 – 2022), the finalization of the report on phase 2...

The University of Okayama in Japan and Seed Savers Exchange in the United States recently deposited samples of some of the world's most celebrated crops including barley, carrot, tomato, and other vegetables into the Svalbard...

Recent BBC article, titled "Go Wild to Protect Food Security" says that the answers to future food security may be found in the wild relatives of our domesticated food crops and highlights the urgent need to "go wild" and conserve...

A new study has shown that over 70 percent of the wild relatives of our domesticated food crops are under-represented in genebanks. 

The study, “Global Conservation Priorities for Crop Wild Relatives“, published in Nature Plants,...

Crop diversity is the raw material for the development of new and improved varieties, which provide a range of important benefits to farmers and consumers.

Researchers have been assembling and managing ex situ collections of crop...

Sosthene Ahongeze, 52, always knew the time for planting and harvesting, and planned accordingly.

Having spent many decades as a smallholder farmer, the resident of Gasoro Cell in the rural Kigoma Sector, Nyanza District was...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Let me start out with a big thank you to the German Government. We signed a grant agreement for a EUR 25 million contribution to the Crop Trust Endowment on 15 January in Berlin. The biggest single...