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October 2015 in Photos

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10 November 2015

October has proven to be the busiest month of 2015 for us all at the Crop Trust. We have organized events and activities all over the world – from welcoming forage specialists at the Secretariat in Bonn, to hosting journalists in Svalbard, to meeting our Donors Council and Executive Board members in Rome, and hosting two global meetings in Izmir, Turkey.

Online, the Crop Wild Relatives Project website, as well as the Genesys PGR portal, were re- launched, updated and enhanced.

We are extremely grateful to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, who since October officially is the Crop Trust’s Patron.

Now I kindly invite you to see a 15-image-and-caption summary that showcases some of our diverse undertakings in the month of October, as we strengthen our role in safeguarding and making available crop diversity, forever.

 

The opinions expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the Crop Trust. The Crop Trust is committed to publishing a diversity of opinions on crop diversity conservation and use.

During the 6th Session of the Governing Body of the ITPGRFA, Marie Haga highlights the increased cooperation between the Crop Trust and the Plant Treaty, as well as the Crop Trust’s plans for its upcoming Pledging Conference.
During the GB6, Marie Haga, Executive Director of the Crop Trust, and Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director- General, Coordinator for Natural Resources, FAO, sign a MOU.
The Crop Trust Secretariat hosts forage experts who meet to discuss and develop a global conservation strategy
On World Food Day, global efforts to preserve biodiversity receive a Royal endorsement: His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, takes on the role as Global Patron of the Crop Trust.
From Bonn, Germany, home of the Crop Trust Secretariat, the staff wishes everybody a happy World Food Day.
Seeds that had originally been sent by ICARDA to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault are safely delivered to Morocco and Lebanon.
More than 140 articles are published in media outlets around the World, including CNN, The Guardian, NPR, the New Yirk Times, Newsweek, PBS, etc.
Marie Haga participates in ‘Seed Security for Food Security’, a DuPont Pioneer side-event at the World Food Prize. “It’s very hard to see how to deal with disease, climate change and increased production without crop diversity,” says Marie.

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