The Arctic’s Doomsday Depository that Could Save Plant Life from Climate Change
3 July 2017 -- The Independent reports on the world's most important freezer: "Built to house as many as five million seed varieties, in the most extreme circumstances, the vault is intended to act as a “doomsday” depository for...
3 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017
Introducing The Food Forever Initiative
The Crop Trust initiated and supports the Food Forever Initiative (FFI), a global partnership which seeks to raise awareness for the importance and urgency of conserving and using agricultural biodiversity. More specifically, the...
9 Jun 2017
9 Jun 2017
World Hunger Day: Why Malnutrition Affects Everyone
28 May 2017, World Hunger Day -- Marie Haga, Executive Director of the Crop Trust and Bev Postma, CEO of HarvestPlus, co-author an opinion piece for the Huffington Post, exploring hidden hunger, a hunger caused from mineral and...
28 May 2017
28 May 2017
Good Genes
17 April 2017 -- Fresh Cup Magazine reports on the Crop Trust's Coffee Conservation Strategy, a partnership with World Coffee Research and the story of the Geisha coffee variety.
Lush countryside, rolling rivers and an active,...
17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017
Inside the 'Doomsday' Vault
6 April 2017 - TIME Magazine covers the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Vault has been dubbed by many as the 'doomsday' vault, conjuring up images of a seed reserve for apocalyptic times. "But it is the much smaller, localized...
6 Apr 2017
6 Apr 2017
The Crop Trust on Looking After Global Food Security
13 March 2017 - New Food Magazine speaks exclusively to Marie Haga.
For those who don’t know, who is the Crop Trust and what do you do?
The Crop Trust’s mandate is to safeguard the many millions of varieties of crops that exist...
13 Mar 2017
13 Mar 2017
From War in Syria to South Sudan Famine: Why the Svalbard 'Doomsday' Vault is Essential for Food Security
9 March 2017 - Marie Haga pens an Opinion Piece for the International Business Times. She writes, "if you're looking to see the need for safeguarding and making crop diversity available, look no further than parts of South Sudan."...
9 Mar 2017
9 Mar 2017
Like a Spike in a Haystack
Como Una Espiga en un Pajar: A Course on Collecting, Processing and Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives
16 dedicated participants from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Chile convened in Chile this January to learn...
27 Feb 2017
27 Feb 2017
Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 3
Forages for the Future, Issue 3 is now available! In this newsletter, Forage scientists, Bruce Pengelly and Brigitte Maass, take stock of the first-year outcomes of implementing the Global Strategy for the Conservation and...
19 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017