Opinion
Crop Diversity: A Solution for Today’s Hunger Crisis and Food Security Tomorrow
The world is facing three major food challenges, all at the same time. We need to produce more food, significantly improve its quality, and ensure that everyone has access to it.
Food security for all is the challenge of the 21st...
11 Dec 2024
Saving the World, One Seed at a Time
You know how some superheroes work silently and selflessly behind the scenes to save the world from an unseen threat?
Genebank staff are a bit like that.
They operate largely outside the public eye; in the shadows, you might...
24 Feb 2023
Sustainable Food Systems Begin with Resilient Seeds
As the global climate crisis continues to wreak havoc on our food systems, there can be no better argument that we need bold and proactive measures to protect agriculture. Rapid changes in temperature and rainfall patterns can...
21 Feb 2023
Taking Stock of 2022
As 2022 draws to a close, it is once again time to reflect on the achievements and lessons of the past year as we dare to look to the future with optimism and hope.
Before the year was over, we received another vivid—and perhaps...
20 Dec 2022
Africa’s Food Security Depends on Nature’s Revival
“Prepare now for the solutions of tomorrow” is a Congolese proverb that could easily serve as a motto for a global community facing the ever-growing challenge of food insecurity in the Global South.
Yet this simple concept is...
16 Dec 2022
Crop Diversity Can Save Food from the Climate Crisis
It is sometimes said that one crisis leads to another. There is little doubt that humanity is now facing a cascade of crises closely connected with climate change.
15 Nov 2022
Food Prices Are on the Rise – And the Global South Will Be Hit Hardest
By Stefan Schmitz, published in the Independent
28 Apr 2022
A Year of Great Hope
2021 reflections by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director
23 Dec 2021
Giving Diversity a Chance
We at the Global Crop Diversity Trust work to make sure that food has a future. So, imagine our excitement when we found that a recent edition of The Economist included a Technology Quarterly—and indeed an accompanying leader— on…...
29 Oct 2021