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Climate Change Effects are Cropping Up and it's only going to get worse: Transformational Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Amanda Fuller, Former Crop Trust Partnerships Fellow

Since 2015, drought-induced crop failures and livestock...

SVALBARD, NORWAY – 16 October 2017 – Seeds of a nearly extinct wild bean, which has evolved a vigorous root system that makes it more resilient to tropical storms, are being deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. On World...

Friday, 29 September 2017 – Starting  today and culminating on Sunday, 1 October 2017, the 77 Member States of the International Coffee Organization (ICO) and dozens of coffee associations around the world are coming together to ...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Rome. Ames. Arusha. Izmir. Horsham. Meise.

For the past six years, the managers of some of the world’s most important collections of crop biodiversity have met at annual meetings held in these...

SVALBARD, NORWAY – Last week, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) deposited more than 7,500 seed samples for safekeeping in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. At the same time, ICARDA...

Algunos de los cultivos más importantes de la humanidad se originaron en América Latina, como el maíz y la yuca, las patatas y los frijoles, los tomates y los chiles. Todos estos – y muchos otros oriundos de la región – son...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

2.5 can mean anything. Percent. Degrees. Kilometers. Kilos. Centimeters.

For everyone connected to biodiversity it has a very special meaning. And if you stumble into someone who happens to work with...

The story of Harvest in Madagascar and Zambia.

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Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

The Economist’s writers are by and large a pretty hard-nosed lot. I guess it’s in their job description. So this final paragraph in an article on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)...

Information is liberating

Data and information systems make our lives easier, in our personal capacity and in our workspace, allowing us to access the information we need with ease and efficiency. In the world of plant genetic...

Under the Crop Wild Relatives Project, researchers from Bangladesh, Pakistan and the US have teamed up to develop carrots adapted to a hotter, drier and overall changing climate. As our cultivated carrots are highly sensitive to...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

On 28 April, at the G-20 meeting in Berlin, the Crop Trust hosted an Expert Panel entitled: Beyond talk: how to put private capital to work for the future of agriculture. The follow up will be at the E...