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Longyearbyen, Norway - February 27, 2024 - The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a cornerstone of global food security, will open its doors for the first time this year to welcome 23 depositors, half from Africa. 

Nine depositors –...

With a pair of tweezers, Mary Aditiku picks up a tiny okra seed, turns it over, and puts it back in place. Her hand is steady; her movements are precise. She repeats this action dozens of times, moving quickly across the plastic...

Rome, Italy, 20 November, 2023: In the face of conflict and extreme weather, the Crop Trust and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty) have pledged more than $100,000 (USD) to...

Berlin, Germany, 15 November 2023: Leading experts have issued a rallying cry that greater international cooperation is urgently required to safeguard food security in the wake of global crises.

This call to action from...

We must urgently transform our agrifood systems if we are to resolve the linked, overlapping crises that humanity faces. This transformation depends on many of us doing many things differently, but one thing is clear: it cannot...

On 19 September, scientists, policymakers and other crop diversity enthusiasts, flocked to Mindspace in Williamsburg, one of Brooklyn’s foodiest neighborhoods, to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time—how to...

15 Years of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault:

New deposit from 20 genebanks and a new virtual tour to celebrate the remote Arctic seed store

The importance of our planet's biodiversity – and its crop diversity – has never been more clear.

This past year has shown time and again the urgency of both conserving crop diversity and using it to develop climate-resilient...

A new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat named Jabal, which means “mountain” in local Arabic, developed together by farmers and scientists in a decades-long project, has been released for cultivation in Morocco.

The new...

As food supplies around the world are threatened by conflict, drought, and climate change, funding is being made available to bolster future food and nutrition security, by saving local varieties.

The Crop Trust is supporting...