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A Small Cost With a Big Benefit: Supporting Genebanks in Need

A Small Cost With a Big Benefit: Supporting Genebanks in Need We live in challenging times. Much of the world is beset by armed conflict, inequalities, biodiversity loss and climate disasters.…

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A Resilient Food System in a Changing Climate

A Resilient Food System in a Changing Climate The Global Crop Diversity Trust and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew present a one day symposium 23rd November 2015 9:30-16:30 Millennium Seed…

A Nutritious Future Starts in Genebanks

A Nutritious Future Starts in Genebanks Beans, sorghum, pearl millet, peas and lentils have a lot to offer. These nutritious crops are not only tasty, versatile, gluten-free and nutritious, but they…

A New Decade for Biodiversity Protection

A New Decade for Biodiversity Protection The new year is upon us, ushering in an updated Global Biodiversity Framework for the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), covering the period 2021 to…

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A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal Luigi Guarino The financial woes of Ireland are regularly in the news these days, though a respectful respite seems thankfully to have been observed recently, perhaps in honour of…

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A Modest Proposal

Luigi Guarino

Illustration of scientist holding wheat

A Love for Lentils: How World Pulses Day Can Change the Way You Eat

A Love for Lentils: How World Pulses Day Can Change the Way You Eat Pulses have a long, rich history. The first evidence of pulses comes from 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, a region in the…

A Look Back on 2016

A Look Back on 2016 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner In this "corner" we will take a look back at an exciting Crop Trust 2016 and welcome 2017 with some reflections on what we want to achieve. The Big…

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A Little Wild in Our Rice

A Little Wild in Our Rice Scientists are collaborating with farmers in Vietnam in a new project which is striving to develop improved varieties of rice which can withstand the challenges of climate…

Almost two-thirds of the world’s population depend on rice as part of their daily sustenance. In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, rice is harvested two or three times a year, and 80% of the 17 million people who live there are engaged in rice cultivation. During a recent Crop Wild Relatives visit, Crop Trust, IRRI and NMBU representatives consumed it steamed, puffed, in flakes, as noodles, as wine, to mention just a few of the ways the Vietnamese enjoy this staple crop. Photo: L.M. Salazar

A Legend Retires: Jane Toll

A Legend Retires: Jane Toll On the 23rd of October 1987, a young crop collector named Jane Toll was taking part in a collecting mission in central Chad, helping the staff of the young country’s…

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