Thousands of Years of Global Agricultural History Preserved for Future Generations
International efforts to guarantee the future of world food supplies will see thousands of seeds from almost every country in the world deposited safely in a vault deep in a mountain in the Arctic this week. The seeds will be...
2 Mar 2015
2 Mar 2015
New Appointment to Crop Trust Board
The Global Crop Diversity Trust, an international body seeking to guarantee the conservation of crop diversity worldwide forever, has strengthened its high level Board with the appointment of former Norwegian Government Minister...
29 Jan 2015
29 Jan 2015
Launch of DivSeek
Launch of global ‘big data’ partnership to harness genetic resources for food security
San Diego, USA (9 January 2015) An international initiative launched today will help secure world food supplies by revolutionizing the way...
9 Jan 2015
9 Jan 2015
Deposit to Svalbard for World Food Day
WORLD FOOD DAY – THOUSANDS MORE CROP VARIETIES TO ARRIVE AT GLOBE’S BIGGEST SEED VAULT
Almost 10,000 crop varieties from more than 100 countries will be deposited in the world’s biggest seed bank this week – a major contribution...
16 Oct 2014
16 Oct 2014
Keeping the World Safe for Miso, Beans and Wild Relatives
Okayama University marks first Japanese deposit to Seed Vault with valuable barley varieties; Global Crop Diversity Trust officials travel to Norway to mark organization’s 10th anniversary
Longyearbyen, Norway (26 February...
26 Feb 2014
26 Feb 2014
Crop Trust Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Ensuring a Stable, Affordable Global Food Supply
(Longyearbyen, Norway) 21 February 2014—Beginning its second decade ensuring the conservation and availability of crop diversity worldwide, the Global Crop Diversity...
21 Feb 2014
21 Feb 2014
New Pact Invests USD 109 Million in Crop Diversity
BONN, GERMANY (31 JANUARY 2013)—Concerned that inconsistent funding eventually could weaken a global network of seed banks at a time when farmers face unprecedented challenges, two of the world’s leading agriculture organizations...
31 Jan 2014
31 Jan 2014
Crop Trust Executive Director Visits Brazil
Crop Diversity, A Global System for Brazilian Agriculture
In order to maintain the success of its agriculture and feed a growing population in the midst of climatic chaos Brazil needs continued access to crop diversity to develop...
27 Aug 2013
27 Aug 2013
Crop Trust Welcomed to Germany
Bonn, Germany (22 May 2013)—The Global Crop Diversity Trust was welcomed to Germany today by the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection, Ms. Ilse Aigner, at a ceremonial opening of the new headquarters in...
22 May 2013
22 May 2013
Crop Trust Announces New Executive Director
ROME, ITALY (18 October 2012)—The Global Crop Diversity Trust announced today the appointment of Marie Haga as its next Executive Director. The Crop Trust works to guarantee the conservation of crop diversity, which is the raw...
18 Oct 2012
18 Oct 2012
New Shipments to Seed Vault in February 2012
LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY (28 February 2012)—Rare wheat collected from the “Roof of the World” in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan; amaranth, with its exotic blood-red stalks that are used in a “Day of the Dead” drink; barley that...
28 Feb 2012
28 Feb 2012
Seeds Added to Growing Collection of Global Seed Vault
LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY (25 February 2011)—The Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrated its third anniversary today with the arrival of seeds for rare lima beans, blight-resistant cantaloupe, and progenitors of antioxidant-rich red...
25 Feb 2011
25 Feb 2011
Sacred Valley of the Incas to Send Potatoes to Seed Vault
CUSCO, PERU (15 February 2011)—As climate change and disease threaten potato farming in the tuber’s ancestral home in the Peruvian Andes, potato preservationists today launched a major effort to safeguard more than 1,500 varieties...
15 Feb 2011
15 Feb 2011
Norway Pledges to Support Crop Wild Relatives
ROME (10 December 2010)—The Global Crop Diversity Trust today announced a major global search to systematically find, gather, catalogue, use, and save the wild relatives of wheat, rice, beans, potato, barley, lentils, chickpea,...
10 Dec 2010
10 Dec 2010
Scientific Community Calls To Halt Destruction of Pavlovsk Station
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (9 September 2010)—Momentum behind a global effort to save Europe’s most important collection of fruits and berries reached a new level this week, as the Russian Housing Development Foundation (RZhS)...
9 Sep 2010
9 Sep 2010
Global Project Underway to Preserve Yam Biodiversity
BENIN (8 September 2010)—Farmers and crop scientists worldwide are engaged in an ambitious new effort to add 3,000 yam samples to international genebanks with the aim of saving the diversity of a crop that is consumed by 60...
8 Sep 2010
8 Sep 2010
Red Hot Chili Peppers Arrive in Svalbard Global Seed Vault
LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY (11 July 2010)—A new collection of some of North America’s hottest foods—an eclectic range of New World chili peppers—were delivered to the cool Arctic Circle environs of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this...
11 Jul 2010
11 Jul 2010
Food Security Experts Warn of Global Hunger from Climate Change
ROME, ITALY (18 November 2009)—Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world’s most prominent...
18 Nov 2009
18 Nov 2009
Crop Trust Enters into Long-term Grant Agreement with SPC
ROME, ITALY (June 4, 2009) - The Global Crop Diversity Trust recently entered into a grant agreement with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) to provide USD 50,000 annually, in perpetuity, towards the long-term...
4 Jun 2009
4 Jun 2009
New Grant Award System Announced
ROME, ITALY (22 May 2009)—The Global Crop Diversity Trust announced today numerous new grant awards to support scientists to explore the millions of seed samples maintained in 1,500 crop genebanks around the world. They will...
22 May 2009
22 May 2009
One-Year Anniversary of Seed Vault
LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY (26 February 2009)—Four tons of seeds - almost 90,000 samples of hundreds of crop species - from food crop collections maintained by Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, USA, and three international agricultural...
26 Feb 2009
26 Feb 2009
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