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New Beginnings Marie Haga | Marie's Corner After very careful consideration and with a heavy heart, I have decided to resign from my position as Executive Director of the Crop Trust. I have been…

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How Do We Estimate the Consequences of Global Inaction on Genetic Diversity Conservation, Exchange, and Use? By Luigi Guarino, David Spielman, and Keith Wiebe Target 2.5 of the Sustainable…

Pre-Breeding Work With Grasspea and Finger Millet Gets a Boost Two food crops prized for their nutritional value and ability to survive temperature extremes, drought and poor soil are now receiving…

2019 World Food Prize celebrates Simon N. Groot, and the diversity of tropical vegetables The 33rd annual edition of the World Food Prize has been awarded to Simon N. Groot, founder of the seed…

Marking the First 15 Years of Forever The Crop Trust was founded in October 2004, with a goal to help build a global system of crop diversity conservation and use, and to fund it through an Endowment…

The Plant Treaty: Q&A with Crop Trust Director of Science, Luigi Guarino This year the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture turns 15, and will celebrate this…

A Closer Look at Coffee Coffee Expert Provides Update on Strategic Review of International Coffee Collection For 70 years, the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in…

The Ponte Rotto of Rome Luigi Guarino | Director of Science In the end, it proved a bridge too far. Delegates at the eighth session of the Governing Body of the Plant Treaty in Rome last week were…

Finish Your Saltwater Greens! Come on, sir; here’s the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy ’tis, to cast one’s eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so…