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Genebank Resilience Tested as Pandemic Enters Second Year

In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, and countries around the world instituted lockdowns and other measures to stem soaring infection rates.

While governments highlighted the...

28 Apr 2021

28 Apr 2021

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A Wild Way to Boost Wheat Yields

In the face of climate change, improving wheat varieties is essential to maintain yields—and genebanks are at the center of the process, a new study shows.

Published in a special issue of the journal Food Security, the study used...

31 Mar 2021

31 Mar 2021

16 Women Scientists Securing the Future of our Food
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16 Women Scientists Securing the Future of our Food

In honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Crop Trust is highlighting some of our past interviews with talented women who work to conserve the world’s seeds.

Fulfilling the Crop Trust’s mission to ensure...

11 Feb 2021

11 Feb 2021

Crop Trust Dialogue on Genebanks at GLF Biodiversity Conference
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Crop Trust Dialogue on Genebanks at GLF Biodiversity Conference

Protecting and harnessing the earth’s biodiversity is more critical than ever to tackle urgent issues like climate change and hunger.

The GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World - One Health brought together over 5,000...

5 Jan 2021

5 Jan 2021

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Hope for Multilateralism Yet

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

I think it’s fair to say that things have not been going very well for multilateralism lately. Quite apart from what’s been happening in politics around the world, but possibly connected to it,...

10 Dec 2020

10 Dec 2020

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Kenyan Farmers Can Bank on Tree Seeds

Tree genebanks can make a valuable contribution to the food security and incomes of smallholder farmers in developing countries, a new study suggests.

The study, published in the journal Food Security, examined the experiences of...

26 Nov 2020

26 Nov 2020

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Potato Diversity Leads to Economic Gain in Uganda

The genebank of the International Potato Centre (CIP) holds more than 6000 accessions of potatoes and distributes samples to users all over the world. But CIP often doesn’t hear back from those recipients of diversity.

“It’s...

3 Sep 2020

3 Sep 2020

Genebank Platform Annual Report
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Genebank Platform Annual Report

Last year, the CGIAR Genebank Platform completed the third year of its five-year lifespan. The Platform ensures that the CGIAR genebanks are running efficiently, that the crop collections they manage are conserved to a high...

3 Aug 2020

3 Aug 2020

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Expanding and Improving Genesys

Genesys, the online portal for information on genebank samples, is constantly evolving. First launched in 2008, it now contains data on more than four million accessions and counting, which is over half of the estimated total...

9 Jul 2020

9 Jul 2020

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Cryopreservation and the Future of Plant Conservation

It might come as a surprise that there are many crops that can’t be conserved in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Aside from today’s star the banana, these include favorites like: cacao, cassava, coffee, potato, sweetpotato,...

15 Apr 2020

15 Apr 2020

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