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The Last Crop Before the Desert “I’ve never seen barley looking this great before!” El Kbir Safraoui couldn’t hold back his excitement about the crop growing in his fields. And he had seen a lot of…

The New Indian Express: 'Conserving Seeds in Genebanks Vital' The New Indian Express reports on the importance of conserving seeds in genebanks. Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop…

The New York Times: The World’s Doomsday Plant Vault Gets Thousands of New Seeds The world’s seed savers are racing to safeguard the world’s crop diversity in “the world’s doomsday garden shed,”…

The One That Makes the Daughter-In-Law Cry and Other Potato Recipes From the Women of the Potato Park Is there a food that’s more emblematic of Peru than the potato? Long, round, bumpy, yellow,…

The Perfect Potato The potato is eaten all over the world, but the original home of the potato was the Andes. The Crop Trust traces the path of some potatoes from the Andes to Svalbard to Germany.

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…

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…

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

The Power and Potential of Agrobiodiversity Protecting and harnessing the earth’s biodiversity is more critical than ever to tackle urgent issues like climate change and hunger.  The GLF…

The Power Behind the Picture March 30, European Parliament; Brussels – Crop Trust photo exhibition captures shots from around the world to warn Europe of urgent need to protect crop…