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Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

Today sees the launch of the latest Access to Nutrition Index (ANI). It’s an independent, science-based ranking of food and beverage companies based on how well they’re doing at...

A direct release from the ICRISAT genebank helped revitalize the pigeonpea industry in Karnataka, India.

Sharanappa Pujari’s face started to glow when I asked him how the pigeonpea variety, Maruti, had helped him to prosper. He...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

The relationship between scientists and their data can be a lot like that between overprotective parents and their children. You know you’ll have to let them go eventually, but...

This week, the Crop Trust's Executive Board holds its semi-annual meeting at the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) in St. Petersburg, Russia. The meeting is just one of many collaborative activities between...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Ten years ago, a group of plant scientists, politicians, engineers, media and more gathered on a snow-covered mountain on the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, for the opening of a unique facility: the...

Cierra Martin, Crop Trust

8 March 2018 – On International Women’s Day, the Crop Trust connects with Danielle Nierenberg, Co-founder and President of Food Tank, a nonprofit organization focused on building a global community for...

Science Brief: Biofortification | No.2

Vitamin A is important in immune function. Approximately one third of children under the age of five are at risk for Vitamin A deficiency (WHO 2009). This is the leading cause of preventable...

This study was commissioned by Bioversity International, the International Potato Center (CIP) and the Crop Trust with financial support from Australia, Germany and Switzerland to investigate the feasibility of establishing a...

By Melinda Smale and Nelissa Jamora

The CGIAR Genebank Platform, with support from the Crop Trust, is establishing a ‘Genebank Impacts Fellowship Program’.

The program, led by Melinda Smale and Nelissa Jamora, will provide...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

It’s still so early in the year, but already I’m quite sure we have just witnessed one of it highlights: a lunch with the Crop Trust’s Global Patron, His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales at his...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

We live in an interdependent world where we all rely on one another to grow and thrive. No one is self-sufficient. But one must also learn how to stand on one’s own two feet. For the Crop Trust that...