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Swiss-Flavoured Food Forever Experience Puts Crop Diversity in the Spotlight at the World Economic Forum 2025
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Swiss-Flavoured Food Forever Experience Puts Crop Diversity in the Spotlight at the World Economic Forum 2025

Davos, Switzerland, 23 January 2025 – The World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting in Davos was the venue of the first Food Forever Experience of the year, underscoring the importance of the conservation and use of crop diversity for...

23 Jan 2025

A farmer from India holds a part of her pearl millet harvest. Credit: ICRISAT
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Dryland Crops in Africa and Asia Get a Boost From Crop Trust and Germany

Agriculture in drought-prone regions took a major step forward when the Crop Trust and Germany’s federal government provided much-needed support for an international agricultural research institute focused on the drylands of...

7 Jan 2025

Rice: A Story of Heritage
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Rice: A Story of Heritage

6 Dec 2024

​​​Alta Sierra Alfalfa Gives High Hopes to Farmers in the Atacama Desert and Beyond
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​​​Alta Sierra Alfalfa Gives High Hopes to Farmers in the Atacama Desert and Beyond

“Alfalfa is what our livelihoods depend on, what our animals eat. It is important for my family now, and it was for former generations – double the value,” says Mauricio Moyo, a smallholder farmer in the Putre region of Chile’s At...

27 Nov 2024

Ehsan Dulloo: Mauritian Champion of Biodiversity Who Set Standards for Genebanks
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Ehsan Dulloo: Mauritian Champion of Biodiversity Who Set Standards for Genebanks

This month, Dr. Ehsan Dulloo joins the ranks of the Crop Trust’s Seed Heroes for his contribution to the development of internationally agreed genebank standards, widely used manuals for seed handling, and biodiversity...

21 Nov 2024

Ukraine Adopts Strategy to Save Crop Diversity
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Ukraine Adopts Strategy to Save Crop Diversity

Ukraine, often referred to as one of the world’s main breadbaskets, is home to a wide variety of agricultural plants. But since the escalation of the war in 2022, its national genebank system, which conserves thousands of unique...

14 Nov 2024

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COP16 Recap: New Fund, Indigenous Rights and Colombia’s Treaty Step

The 16th UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), hosted for the first time by Colombia from 21 October to 1 November 2024, marked a significant step forward in global biodiversity efforts. Leaders, policymakers, scientists, and...

8 Nov 2024

Crop Trust at the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue
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Crop Trust at the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue

Every year, leaders and influential individuals in global agriculture meet in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, to recognize the winner of the World Food Prize and participate in the Borlaug Dialogue. 

The Borlaug Dialogue brings together...

29 Oct 2024

Cary Fowler: Crop Diversity Visionary and World Food Prize Laureate
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Cary Fowler: Crop Diversity Visionary and World Food Prize Laureate

This month, we celebrate the life of Cary Fowler, a key figure in the creation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and co-recipient of the World Food Prize in 2024 for his dedication to conserving crop diversity in the face of...

28 Oct 2024

400-Year-Old Bolivian Newcomer Ships Seeds to Svalbard
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400-Year-Old Bolivian Newcomer Ships Seeds to Svalbard

A 400-year-old university in Bolivia is set to become the latest depositor to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, thanks to support from the Government of Norway, channeled through the Crop Trust.

Founded in 1624, the Universidad...

21 Oct 2024

Geoffrey Hawtin: Crop Diversity Pioneer Who Won the World Food Prize
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Geoffrey Hawtin: Crop Diversity Pioneer Who Won the World Food Prize

In this instalment of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate the work of Geoffrey Hawtin OBE, a co-recipient of the 2024 World Food Prize, who believes that agricultural biodiversity is a significant part of the solution to the most...

7 Oct 2024

Showcasing Seeds: The Aesthetic of Diversity
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Showcasing Seeds: The Aesthetic of Diversity

At face value, it’s hard to understand the potential of seeds. Often only a few millimeters in size, their importance may also seem small to the average person. But a keen eye and a clean lens allow Swiss author, landscape...

4 Oct 2024

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