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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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Colombia Steps Up for Crop Diversity: Inside AGROSAVIA’s Work with the Power of Diversity Funding Facility
Potato, cassava, guava, passionfruit and peach palm are as Colombian as cumbia, Betty la Fea and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism. These crops are found in markets, kitchens and backyard gardens across the country,...
13 Apr 2026
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The Food Forever Initiative
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
2.5 can mean anything. Percent. Degrees. Kilometers. Kilos. Centimeters.
For everyone connected to biodiversity it has a very special meaning. And if you stumble into someone who happens to work with...
3 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017
On the Importance of Biofortification & Crop Diversity Conservation
A Conversation with Howarth Bouis, Founder and Former Director of HarvestPlus
On a cool day in March, the Crop Trust had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Howarth Bouis, otherwise known as “Howdy”, at our offices in Bonn....
26 May 2017
26 May 2017
Genebanks Are Forever
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
The international agricultural research centers have been through a lot during the almost 75 years that have gone by since the first tentative steps were taken towards establishing...
17 May 2017
17 May 2017
It's Complicated
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
I was really sad to hear that Hans Rosling had died a few days ago. I am instantly mesmerized no matter how often I watch him gesticulating enthusiastically in front of a fancy data...
16 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017
A Bandwagon in the Mainstream
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,...
8 Dec 2016
8 Dec 2016
Crop Wild Relatives: The Nexus of Conservation and Agriculture
Sir Peter Crane | President OSGF & Crop Trust Executive Board Member
The end of October was a busy time for the Crop Trust with the sixth meeting of the Advisory Group of the Crop Wild Relatives Project, followed immediately by a...
28 Nov 2016
28 Nov 2016
#CropsInColor Q&A with Brent Stirton
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...
23 Nov 2016
23 Nov 2016
News in November
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...
9 Nov 2016
9 Nov 2016
Combatting Climate Change, One Seed at a Time
The largest agro-biodiversity collection in the world just got a little larger.
Longyearbyen, Norway -- 18 October 2016: A total of 25 boxes containing over 10,000 new accessions enter the Svalbard Global Seed Vault today....
18 Oct 2016
18 Oct 2016
Q&A with Toby Smith: Four Questions and Four Images
Luis Salazar | Communications Manager
Photographer Toby Smith recently visited southern Africa for the Crop Trust’s #CropsInColor campaign. From the central highlands of Madagascar to the swamps of northern Zambia, Toby...
8 Jul 2016
8 Jul 2016
A Conversation with Simran Sethi
By Cierra Martin, Crop Trust
This spring I had the pleasure of speaking with Simran Sethi, a journalist and educator focused on food and agriculture and author of the recently published book Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss...
27 Jun 2016
27 Jun 2016
Pledging Conference Summary
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
The Pledging Conference has taken us one step closer to our final goal: assuring the world safeguards and has access to the crop diversity we need to feed ourselves today, and hopefully feed our progeny...
19 May 2016
19 May 2016