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From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.
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New Potato Variety Offers a Lifeline to Farmers Battling Blight
Genebanks and global cooperation deliver versatile, climate-resilient solutions for farmers
Lima, Peru (06 November 2025) – The same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine nearly two centuries ago still devastates potato...
6 Nov 2025
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Letter to the Donors of the CGIAR
To the Donors of the CGIAR
The Global Crop Diversity Trust has been established by the FAO and the CGIAR to secure and make available crop diversity for global food security and nutrition. Since 2012, through the Genebank CRP, the...
10 Jun 2015
10 Jun 2015
Open Letter to the Guardian, by Crop Trust Executive Director
In reference to: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/20/the-doomsday-vault-seeds-save-post-apocalyptic-worl
Dear Sir,
Your recent article on the Svalbard Seed Vault highlights the Crop Trust’s work to ensure the...
23 May 2015
23 May 2015
Picking Up Where We Left Off
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
Picking up where we left off: my previous post was published from Lima, Peru, during our last Executive Board meeting. I would like to publicly thank our Board members for their time and support....
28 Apr 2015
28 Apr 2015
Q&A with AfricaRice Genebank Manager
Following the recent AfricaRice deposit of 2,400 rice accessions to Svalbard, the Crop Trust sat down with Dr. Marie-Noëlle Ndjiondjop, Head of Genetic Resources Unit and GRiSP Theme 1 Leader for Africa at AfricaRice, to discuss...
22 Apr 2015
22 Apr 2015
The Gregor Mendel Foundation Honors ICARDA
In a personal account of the event, our Deputy Executive Director Paula Bramel talks about the ceremony, which was held in Berlin on 19 March.
Last month the Gregor Mendel Foundation awarded its Innovation Prize to Mahmoud Sohl,...
4 Apr 2015
4 Apr 2015
Brazil to Play Key Role in Global Food Security
23 March 2015, Brasilia: Landmark meeting with Global Crop Diversity Trust hosted by Embrapa takes place in Brasilia to discuss the key role that Brazil must play in food security.
Key figures from four government ministries will...
23 Mar 2015
23 Mar 2015
A Busy Month North and South
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
The 17th meeting of the Executive Board is taking place right now in Lima, Peru where we will discuss how we envisage the complete global system for conservation and availability of crop diversity, but...
16 Mar 2015
16 Mar 2015
Rich Soil With a Side of Beans
Insects invade neighborhood in Manizales
The large number of flies may be caused by improper usage of fertilizers.
According to the local people in the La Linda neighborhood of Manizales, this is not the first time they have...
20 Feb 2015
20 Feb 2015
Crop Trust Wins Video of the Day Award
The Crop Trust's brand new video, Securing Our Food, Forever, has received the video of the day award by VOTD.TV.
VOTD.TV awarded the Crop Trust and Epic Agency with the Video of the Day Award on 27 January 2015.
The video was...
18 Jan 2015
18 Jan 2015
Seeds of Time
A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food.
Gene banks of the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation...
3 Jan 2015
3 Jan 2015
Bringing Diversity Back to Maize
6,700 years ago the ancient Peruvians were eating popcorn – 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a study by the Museum of Natural History in Washington, USA.
The analysis revealed that ears found in Paredones...
9 Dec 2014
9 Dec 2014
No Such Flavor as Strawberry
This year your strawberries could be as white as the cream poured over them, after a new variety went on sale today.
The pineberry is said to combine the shape and texture of a strawberry with a flavour and smell closer to that...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014