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This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.

Vania Azevedo has...

This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.

Sophia Lüttringhaus...

This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.

Melinda Smale was...

All of us at the Crop Trust are deeply saddened by the sudden death of our Executive Board Member Barbara Wells.

Barbara was CGIAR’s Global Director of Genetic Innovation and Director General of the International Potato Center...

As a young boy growing up in Niger, Hamidou Falalou fell in love with the search for answers and knew he wanted to become a scientist. When, later, he saw climate change threatening local food security, he decided to dedicate his...

All genebanks need sound data management to keep track of the inventories of seeds in their cold rooms and fields, and of all their interlinked processes.

For a long time, the CGIAR genebanks have taken their own unique...

As announced recently, the Crop Trust, in coordination with its partners at NordGen, the Norwegian Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Plant Treaty, are launching a competitive grant scheme to support the backing up of crop...

Charting a path forward to conserve precious genetic resources for future food options.

Food plants contribute an astonishing array of colors, textures, flavors and, most importantly, vital nutrients to our diets. Yet many fruit...

This World Food Day, the International Potato Center (CIP) announced a new disease-resistant potato developed with the Crop Trust’s support. Called CIP-Matilde, this special spud was developed in collaboration with farmers and...

Because seeds don’t last forever, not even in genebanks, the Crop Trust and partners will help genebanks and other seed collection holders in their efforts to regenerate and back up crop diversity collections in the Svalbard...

Over the last half-century, genebanks have played an essential role in safeguarding global food security for the future through the conservation of plant genetic resources.

Now, based on a review of historical data from seven...

Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director

As I write this, fires rage in Greece and Turkey, provoked by drought and searing heat waves. During the last couple of months, parts of Canada and the United States have also been hit by deadly...