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The Vault for Global Food Security

The Vault for Global Food Security Sayanti Sengupta | seventeen goals Magazine The world population has been growing by leaps and bounds. How do we then ensure food security for all in the face of…

The Vavilov Collection Connection

The Vavilov Collection Connection This week, the Crop Trust's Executive Board holds its semi-annual meeting at the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) in St. Petersburg, Russia.…

The Vavilov Institute recognized the Crop Trust’s contribution to its work last November when it presented Marie Haga with its N.I. Vavilov Medal. The medal was awarded for “exceptional contribution to the cause of preservation of the Vavilov global collection of plant genetic resources for the present and future generations.”

The Women Finger Millet Advocates of Western Kenya

The Women Finger Millet Advocates of Western Kenya

The Women’s Committee of Cotacachi: Guardians of the Chakras

The Women’s Committee of Cotacachi: Guardians of the Chakras This edition of our Seed Heroes series is about the Women’s Committee of UNORCAC in Ecuador, who safeguard crop diversity, promote…

The Wonderful World of Sunflowers

The Wonderful World of Sunflowers Think about sunflowers, and there is a good chance that Vincent van Gogh's masterful artworks will leap to mind. His series of sunflower paintings, created in the…

The World Podcast: Ukraine Seed Bank Under Threat by Russian Invasion

The World Podcast: Ukraine Seed Bank Under Threat by Russian Invasion The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed lots of the country's infrastructure. Housing, roads, train stations and…

The World's "Coolest" Insurance Policy Turns 10

The World's "Coolest" Insurance Policy Turns 10 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Ten years ago, a group of plant scientists, politicians, engineers, media and more gathered on a snow-covered mountain on…

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The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity

The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity Massive rice collection to receive permanent financial backing, saving almost all known varieties of rice crops, forever  (SINGAPORE – 12 October…

These Rare Seeds Escaped Syria's War—to Help Feed the World

Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.

A box with seeds from ICARDA's Syrian genebank in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Photo: Luis Salazar/Crop Trust.

They’re Back: GROW Webinars for the Genebank Community

They’re Back: GROW Webinars for the Genebank Community Genebank Resources on the Web (GROW) webinars are relaunching through a partnership between the Crop Trust and CGIAR to continue…

Documenting the rice is a key activity of the AfricaRice genebank
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