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An excerpt from our recently published 2020 Annual Report by Executive Director Stefan Schmitz

No aspect of the Crop Trust’s work in 2020 was left untouched by the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The shocks of the past...

Until all too recently, sharing information on genetic resources was a hugely inefficient process that made collaboration, at times, impossible.

The solution has been to create online repositories that offer easy-to-share data...

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A Q&A with Crop Trust Executive Director, Stefan Schmitz

A new project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented in partnership with the Deutsche...

A total of 85 boxes with thousands of seed samples will be deposited this week in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. This deposit – the biggest since February 2020 – focused on vegetables, particularly tomatoes.

Despite the ongoing...

We are pleased to share the achievements that we and our partners have achieved during the last year in our 2020 Annual Report.

Read the Annual Report

Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director

When the first Model T rolled off his assembly line, Henry Ford revolutionized the economy.

Industrial mass production became an essential feature of the 20th century and laid a foundation for...

Senior English major Shaliz Barzani has been awarded The Steve and Riea Lainoff Crop Trust Fellowship in Honor of Cary Fowler. The fellowship is made possible through the generosity of Steve and Riea Lainoff, parents of Rhodes...

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...

Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director

It is often said that in the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity. These insightful words apply to the predicament in which the world finds itself today as climate change and...

Plant breeders developing new crop varieties are finding success after shifting their gaze from the fields to the stars.

Scientists at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Rabat,...

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...

Chickpea is an excellent source of dietary fiber, with calcium and magnesium to boot, but new research shows we can do even more with the popular legume to combat malnutrition.

A study published in a special issue of Crop Science...