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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 10 December 2023 — As the world comes together to urgently chart a better course forward for climate action at COP 28 in Dubai, the Crop Trust is proud to announce the launch of the BOLDER (Building...

Berlin, Germany, 15 November 2023 - The Crop Trust and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) renewed their shared commitment to the conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources through the International Rice...

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...

“You’ve got to think about doing big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

The words of U.S. futurist writer Alvin Toffler in the 1970s are sometimes cited in business...

Think about sunflowers, and there is a good chance that Vincent van Gogh's masterful artworks will leap to mind. His series of sunflower paintings, created in the late 19th century, are timeless representations of the flower's...

Can Tho, Vietnam, 26 October, 2023: A new project is supporting rice farmers in Vietnam to unlock the genetic potential of the crop, by developing new resilient varieties, in a bid to safeguard rice harvests from the impacts of...

Today, Ghana becomes the 100th depositor to deposit seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, an important step towards ensuring the long-term protection of the country’s major food crops. Ghana joins 15 other institutions,...

Even on World Food Day, when the world is abuzz with talk about the future of humanity and the planet, it’s easy to take seeds for granted. But without seeds, we wouldn’t have food.

Saving seeds is in fact what will help us...

M.S. Swaminathan, the father of the Green Revolution in Asia and a builder of global institutions tasked with protecting the world’s agricultural biodiversity, has died. He was 98.

He passed away at his residence in Chennai,...

Many of the foods we cherish the most – bananas and potatoes, for example – don’t reproduce through seeds. They are propagated through vegetative means like tubers, suckers, and cuttings.

For this reason, the diversity of these...