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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

This Crazy World

This Crazy World Luigi Guarino What you – and they – are looking at is a small fraction of the world’s largest collection of bean diversity. You can admire it, like these guys are doing, at the…

This Crazy World

Luigi Guarino

Illustration of scientist holding wheat

This is how the Ukrainian Seeds Were Saved

This is how the Ukrainian Seeds Were Saved Earlier this year, a secret operation involving scientists and technicians successfully moved a collection of 51,004 Ukrainian seed varieties from Kharkiv…

Thoughts on the Inaugural International Day of Plant Health

Thoughts on the Inaugural International Day of Plant Health I suspect that the well-being of plants is not much on people’s minds these days. Did you know that 2020 was the International Year of…

In vitro production of virus free planting for international distribution at IITA.

Thousands of Years of Global Agricultural History Preserved for Future Generations

Thousands of Years of Global Agricultural History Preserved for Future Generations International efforts to guarantee the future of world food supplies will see thousands of seeds from almost every…

Threatened Wild Sunflowers

Threatened Wild Sunflowers   The line of cars was so thick that Hill County farmer Rodney Schronk couldn’t get into his field of sunflowers. Hordes of rubber-neckers stopped along Interstate…

Flowers

Three Key Takeaways from Food Forever: Climate-proofing our Food For Future Generations

Three Key Takeaways from Food Forever: Climate-proofing our Food For Future Generations Crop diversity – without which we cannot adapt to the climate crisis, improve livelihoods and feed everyone…

Yam flower.

Tim Fischer Elected for a Second Term as Crop Trust Executive Board Chair

Tim Fischer Elected for a Second Term as Crop Trust Executive Board Chair (BONN, GERMANY – 27th June 2018) - Australia’s former Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer, has been elected for a second term…

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