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Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

My friend Ali Lawati is upset with me. He works on plant genetic resources conservation in Oman, and we’ve known each other for over twenty years, ever since we tried to collect...

Bananas originated in South and Southeast Asia, and are now produced throughout the world’s tropics and eaten in at least 192 countries worldwide. Quinoa came from the South American Andes, and is currently cultivated in almost...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

I collect stories about genebanks making a difference. Well, somebody has to, and it’s kind of my job.  I find them all interesting, but like happy families, such stories are...

Luis Salazar | Communications Manager

Photographer Toby Smith recently visited southern Africa for the Crop Trust’s #CropsInColor campaign. From the central highlands of Madagascar to the swamps of northern Zambia, Toby...

Luigi Guarino| Director of Science and Programs

Watching the England football team succumb again a few days ago, it struck me that what the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is trying to do...

By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs

Anybody who buys something in a supermarket these days knows a little about barcodes. You put your purchases in the trolley, take them to the check-out person, who waves that...

By Cierra Martin, Crop Trust

This spring I had the pleasure of speaking with Simran Sethi, a journalist and educator focused on food and agriculture and author of the recently published book Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss...

By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs

No, not my contribution to the debates on Brexit or who should be the next US president. The immigrants I have in mind are plants, not people – though admittedly ones that have...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

We have decided to tweak my corner a little this time, and give you an update on recent developments in two areas of our work. More specifically I will focus on information systems and technology for...

Nearly 70% of the crops contributing calories, fat, and protein in a country’s diet historically originate elsewhere, new study shows

LONDON - 8 JUNE 2016 — The origins of over two-thirds of the grains, legumes,...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

The Pledging Conference has taken us one step closer to our final goal: assuring the world safeguards and has access to the crop diversity we need to feed ourselves today, and hopefully feed our progeny...

At the Crop Trust's Pledging Conference in Washington, D.C., the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations gave the keynote address. Read the speech below.

State Secretary Skogen,

State Secretary Silberhorn,

Chair of Crop...