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Five Reasons to be Excited About 2019 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner With January already well underway, the Crop Trust communications team challenged me to pick five reasons to be excited about 2019.…

Wake Up and Smell the Good News Luigi Guarino | Director of Science  There’s an outfit called Conservation Optimism. Its mission is as its name suggests: inspiring biodiversity conservation…

CePaCT Donor Roundtable: Discussing support for the Pacific’s most important genebank Donors, Pacific Community (SPC) scientists and the Crop Trust will meet in Suva, Fiji, at the end of March to…

Our Food System: Facing a Titanic Problem? Luigi Guarino | Director of Science Whenever a new report on some aspect or other of the food system comes out, the metaphors start flying around. We saw…

A Homecoming for Rice AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Côte d’Ivoire, more than a decade after the center re-located to Benin during a civil war. But first, all its rice…

Time for Tea Luigi Guarino | Director of Science  My mother-in-law, Hilda Gathoni, has been growing tea for most of her 83 years. The same tea. The tea she and her family also drink. It’s about…

Why I dislike the International Day for Biological Diversity Luigi Guarino | Director of Science I don’t like the International Day for Biological Diversity much. I mean, I’m fine with the concept.…

Wild Relatives: Not Just in Your Family Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Most of us have some wild relatives in our families. I can think of some in my own. It’s the same with crops – they too have their…

Show Me the Non-monetary Benefits Luigi Guarino | Director of Science Whenever the subject of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) comes up, I…

In Vietnam: Farmers Evaluate Wild Rice-derived Lines We recently visited our Crop Wild Relatives partners at the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute, Can Tho University,…