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Luigi Guarino | Director of Science 

There’s an outfit called Conservation Optimism. Its mission is as its name suggests: inspiring biodiversity conservation through good news. I really admire their moxie, because optimism is a...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

With January already well underway, the Crop Trust communications team challenged me to pick five reasons to be excited about 2019. With so much work to choose from, it was no easy task. But as many of...

Michael Major, Crop Trust

Banner photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT

Genesys, the global online portal to information about plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) in genebanks, has been significantly enhanced with the...

Interview and photos: LM Salazar | Crop Trust

I met up with world-renowned chef Dan Barber during my recent #CropsInColor trip to the Northeast region of the United States. Dan has become a leading voice in the global...

Bonnie Furman and Stefano Diulgheroff (FAO)

Luigi Guarino (Crop Trust)

How do genebank managers know they’re doing all they can to maintain the quality and availability of their collections?

Perhaps the most important tool at...

Words by Paul Cox for #CropsInColor

Photos by Luis Salazar, Crop Trust

In a field at dawn, Petra Page-Mann is picking squash. Although collectively known as “winter squash” for their thick-skinned ability to last right through a...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

This month was historic for the Crop Trust. For the first time, we agreed to fund a genebank with the longest possible time horizon – nothing less than forever.

The agreement with the International...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

For as long ahead as we can usefully think, breeders, researchers, and indeed farmers, will need genebanks to help them get hold of seeds.

Those seeds are the key to ensuring...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Let me do a different Marie’s corner this time. I’ll give you a peek inside the organization on the morning of a random day – 18th September.

After a relatively early morning by the computer I walk to...

The business guru Peter Drucker was fond of saying that you can’t improve what you can’t measure. It is debatable to what extent conservation resembles business, but conservationists certainly seem to have taken this particular...

Luigi Guarino | Crop Trust Director of Science and Programs

Imagine I’m your neighbour, and I have something you want, a tool say, to fix your car. Can we come to some arrangement that will make both of us happy?

Well, I could...