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Paula Bramel: Research Mentor Who Transformed Crop Diversity Institutions
In this edition of our Seed Heroes series, we pay tribute to U.S. scientist Paula Bramel, whose research, mentorship and leadership have been instrumental in building organizations and nurturing the next generation of agriculture...
4 Sep 2025
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Grasspea Innovation Shines in Ghent
In June, the picturesque city of Ghent, Belgium, gathered grasspea fans and experts at the inaugural International Lathyrus Day.
Organized by the Fernand Lambein Fund and sponsored by the Crop Trust, this event honored the...
26 Jun 2024
Enjoy Katie Parla’s Grasspea Soup – At Your Own Risk
Some foods are delicious but dangerous. Fubu, or puffer fish, is an extreme example: only trained chefs are allowed to prepare the funny-looking fish for risk-loving gourmets.
But humans have also accepted risk in more prosaic...
24 Jun 2024
Evangelina Villegas: The First Woman to Receive the World Food Prize
In this installment of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate the life of Mexican scientist Evangelina Villegas, who co-developed a new variety of protein-building maize that improved diets for millions of malnourished people around...
19 Jun 2024
Keeping Malan Alive in Central Kalimantan
Papa Dewi looked out at fields covered with a kaleidoscope of crops: rice, cowpea, eggplant, maize, and more. “This is our way of life,” said the Dayak farmer from Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan. “This is malan.”
Malan means...
18 Jun 2024
His Majesty King Charles III Continues Patronage of Crop Trust
June 3, 2024 – Bonn, Germany – The Crop Trust is delighted that, following a review of the patronages of the late Queen and the former Prince of Wales, His Majesty King Charles III has decided to continue to be its Patron....
3 Jun 2024
The One That Makes the Daughter-In-Law Cry and Other Potato Recipes From the Women of the Potato Park
Is there a food that’s more emblematic of Peru than the potato? Long, round, bumpy, yellow, purple, red. Every imaginable shape and color is on the menu. And the women there know how to prepare them.
I have been in Peru doing...
30 May 2024
Genebanks From Around the World Stand United as New Seeds are Added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, 28 May 2024 – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault welcomes shipments from five new depositors as the world’s largest repository of crop diversity raises the number of samples in its care to...
28 May 2024
Carlos Ochoa: The Indiana Jones of the Potato World
In this installment of our Seed Heroes series, we remember the unique contributions of Peruvian scientist Carlos Ochoa, whose hazardous collection expeditions in search of wild potatoes paved the way for many of today’s improved...
24 May 2024
Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler to Receive the 2024 World Food Prize for Safeguarding Crop Diversity
Des Moines, Iowa — May 9, 2024 — The World Food Prize Foundation has announced that two of the Crop Trust’s foundational figures, Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin and Dr. Cary Fowler, will receive the 2024 World Food Prize for their...
9 May 2024
Life Insurance for Genebanks
Genebanks are generally safe. But they are not invulnerable.
More than a decade ago, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas’ (ICARDA) genebank got caught up in the civil war in Syria, and scientists...
6 May 2024