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The new year is upon us, ushering in an updated Global Biodiversity Framework for the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), covering the period 2021 to 2030 and beyond.

But with a new year comes the reminder that biodiversity...

Dr. Janny van Beem, the Crop Trust’s Quality Management Systems expert, uses the image of a staircase to illustrate how quality management is a gradual and continuous process: you build your way up, one step at a time, creating...

The importance of the world’s biodiversity cannot be understated and similarly, the uses of agrobiodiversity cannot be underestimated—or ignored.

The Crop Trust’s session Food Forever: Biodiversity for Resilience at the GLF...

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...

Agrobiodiversity underpins nearly everything we eat and drink, yet few people understand what it is or how the diversity of crops and livestock contribute to what we find on our plates. To strengthen this connection, we are...

2020 reflections by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director 

For everyone in the world, 2020 has been a year like no other.

The global pandemic has left no one...

From sunflowers to blueberries, cranberries and blackberries to pecans and squash, the United States is home to a variety of widely eaten crops and their wild relatives. Unfortunately, many of these wild cousins of familiar crops...

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,...

The Global Crop Diversity Trust is honored to be recognized as a finalist for the 2020 Food Planet Prize, which was established by the Curt Bergfors Foundation in Sweden.

“Our food system is broken, and the planet is ailing,”...

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...

The Genebank Impacts Fellowship

Two cohorts of young professionals have had the opportunity to leverage their passion for economics and agricultural sciences through a Genebank Impacts Fellowship, supported by the CGIAR Genebank...

When war broke out in Syria in 2011, the future of one of the world’s most important seed collections was put at risk. What followed was an internationally coordinated rescue to ensure the preservation of this priceless heritage. ...