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How do you go about finding and collecting seeds from a scraggly looking crop wild relative in a prairie or a tropical forest, when you’ve never done it before? Once you’ve collected them, how do you keep track of the seeds...

A recent summit entitled Genetic diversity for more resilient food systems looked at the urgent need of safeguarding crop diversity due to the impact of climate changes on food production. Representatives of genebanks from around...

By Stefan Schmitz, Executive  Director of Crop Trust and Tony Simons, Director General of World Agroforestry

We have all heard the figures: by 2050, the world’s population is expected to increase to nearly 10 billion, and most...

This slideshow presents a brief, but wide-ranging, look at the importance of alfalfa in Chile’s Magallanes region. More specifically, it highlights how and why our partners at the Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA) are...

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...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Another day, another report telling us that the food system must change. The latest is from the U.N. Committee on World Food Security’s High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) and, although it has...

For International Day of the Tropics, we're taking a look at a genebank for pacific crops and trees. When we talk about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault being the tip of the iceberg of a global system of crop conservation, the...

The Crop Trust’s Seeds for Resilience project is supporting genebanks in Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Ghana to improve their capacity to conserve their collections of crop diversity and make them available to scientists...

Tasty Local Insight from the GLF Bonn Digital Conference 2020

This article is part of a series on sustainable food produced in collaboration with the Global Landscapes Forum

At the Global Landscape Forum’s 2020 digital...

Early this year, the Crop Trust’s very own Luis Salazar visited Argentina, where our Crop Wild Relatives Project pre-breeding partners from the National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA in the Spanish acronym) are...

At the GLF Bonn 2020 digital conference on food in the time of crises, Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz gave an inspirational talk about the importance of crop diversity and the need for us to rethink our food systems....

The crop diversity in CGIAR's international genebanks continues to be in great demand. That's music to the ears of genebank managers, who naturally want to see their carefully conserved collections put to good use. But it also...