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When the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opens this week, for the first time in 2021, the seeds of something really sweet will be among those deposited.

A package of 500 Fragaria vesca (woodland or wild strawberry) seeds will be...

A global consortium on tea genetic resources will benefit tea-growing countries around the world, according to Professor Liang Chen, curator of the world’s largest collection of tea diversity and co-author of the Crop Trust’s Glob...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Stefano Diulgheroff, Bonnie Furman, Arshiya Noorani, Ndeye Ndack Diop, Wilson Hugo, Shawn McGuire, Lucio Olivero, Luigi Guarino and Chikelu Mba

Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) are critical for achieving...

In-depth Audit Suggests Sustainable Way Forward For Key International Coffee Collection

For the past 71 years, the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), located at Turrialba in Costa Rica has been...

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...

Safeguarding the foundation of our food system for future generations.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway (27 August 2020) - A unique 100-year experiment launches today at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The experiment, the first...

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...