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The Plant Treaty: Q&A with Crop Trust Director of Science, Luigi Guarino

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 Perfect Potato

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 One That Makes the Daughter-In-Law Cry and Other Potato Recipes From the Women of the Potato Park

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 New York Times: The World’s Doomsday Plant Vault Gets Thousands of New Seeds

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,”…

Seeds from Palestine are carried into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Seed Vault provides a safe haven, supporting global initiatives to preserve crop diversity against climate threats and geopolitical challenges. Credit: Jonatan Jacobson/NordGen

The New Indian Express: 'Conserving Seeds in Genebanks Vital'

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 Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing

This course provides an overview of the legal and historical perspectives that led to the development of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing (Multilateral System). It emphasizes the…

The Millennium Seed Bank: 25 Years of Impact and Inspiration

The Millennium Seed Bank: 25 Years of Impact and Inspiration As the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) marks its 25th anniversary, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is sharing its remarkable story with the…

The Last Crop Before the Desert

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 International Plant Treaty

The Crop Trust is recognized as an essential element of the funding strategy of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty).

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The International Agrobiodiversity Congress, 6-9 November 2016 - New Delhi, India

The International Agrobiodiversity Congress, 6-9 November 2016 - New Delhi, India The Crop Trust is excited to announce the very first International Agrobiodiversity Congress (IAC) to…

A farmer plows the land with oxen at the Agustina Farm in Morales, Cauca. A drought fueled by the El Niño phenomenon in 2015 forced farmers to delay planting cassava in Cauca, leaving fields bare far into the growing season. As such disruptions become more frequent under climate change, farmers will need more cassava varieties that are both drought tolerant and fast-growing enough to plant whenever the rain arrives.

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The Crop Diversity Digest

From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.