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Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

Mainstreaming has been at full flood of late. The 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is going on right now in Cancun, Mexico,...

Luis Salazar | Global Crop Diversity Trust 

In his two-decade career, Brent Stirton has focused his work on issues dear to his heart, which include conservation, sustainability and the environment. He has won nine awards from the...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

During the last couple of months, we have been organizing events and activities all over the world – from North and Central America to Australia and New Zealand.

Happy days in the Asia-Pacific Region

Ju...

Luigi Guarino|Director of Science and Programs

Readers of a certain age may remember a catchy but ever-so-slightly annoying tune from the late 70s called “Escape,” which also went by the even more annoying subtitle of “The Piña...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

Cows get a lot of bad press these days. They are blamed for climate change and deforestation and even unhealthy diets, as if it’s their fault that people like to scoff down...

Luigi Guarino| Director of Science and Programs

There’s a question I’m asked a lot when I give introductory talks about the Crop Trust: what do we have against in situ conservation?

“In situ” is a bit of unlovely jargon for the...

Genebanks safeguard and make available the genetic diversity of our food crops. This is a critically important endeavor, but protecting and sharing plant materials – seeds, tissues in test tubes etc. – alone is not enough. Beyond...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

We have decided to collect our main activities during the months of June and July and present you with a summer Newsletter edition. I hope you appreciate the following summary:

Enhancing the...

This week, I’d like to use this blog to introduce a new colleague here at the Crop Trust. His name is Dr Benjamin Kilian, and he’ll be working on our project on crop wild relatives, mainly looking after the pre-breeding component....

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs 

OMG! Look, over there! Mewtwo! Quick, let’s catch it

Oh, I’m sorry, did I distract you from your own Pokémon Go? Seems like everybody’s at it these days. You see devotees on the...

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...

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...