The Roots of Eating
Berlin, Germany - 20 November 2016: "What are the 'roots' of our food"? asks Anne Brüning from the German newspaper, die Berliner Zeitung.
In the article, Brüning explains how many of the crops we eat today have originally come...
22 Nov 2016
22 Nov 2016
Does Australia Hold the Key to Food Security?
7 November, 2016 -- Devex's, Lisa Cornish, chats with Marie Haga, Crop Trust's Executive Director and Sally Norton, head of the Australian Grains Genebank, on climate change and why conserving crop diversity, including the wild...
9 Nov 2016
9 Nov 2016
Break Down Barriers Between Seed Banks and Field Study
8 November 2016 -- SciDev publishes opinion piece by Crop Trust's Executive Director, Marie Haga, and Bioversity's Director General, Ann Tutwiler, on breaking down barriers between ex situ and in situ conservation.
Food...
9 Nov 2016
9 Nov 2016
New Video: On Collecting and Capacity Building
The newest Crop Wild Relatives video is live, highlighting the importance of collecting and capacity building!
Crop wild relatives, the wild cousins of our domesticated crops, are crucial to future food security. Before they can...
14 Sep 2016
14 Sep 2016
Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 2
Forages for the Future, Issue 2 now available! After publishing the first issue, there was an overwhelmingly, positive response. The subscription for the newsletter has now doubled and Bruce Pengelly and Brigitte Maass, two...
13 Sep 2016
13 Sep 2016
New Zealand's First Seed Deposit & More Svalbard News
Institutes from around the world deposited seeds into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this May, marking another step towards ensuring global food security.
The latest seed deposit which included over 8,000 varieties of crops from...
14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016
From Lack of Diversity to Lack of Funding, Seed Banks Face a World of Challenges
A recent article, published in the Smithsonian online magazine sheds light on the numerous challenges facing genebanks today and discusses everything from the origin of these precious seed repositories to what the perfect system...
17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016
Marie Haga: La Diversidad de Cultivos es la Base de la Seguridad Alimentaria
Following, the Challengers Future of Food Event, hosted in Barcelona earlier this month, Tech Food Magazine spoke with the Crop Trust's Executive Director, Marie Haga. The Q&A article published in Spanish on the 15th of June,...
15 Jun 2016
15 Jun 2016
Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 1
New newsletter, "Forages for the Future," published today!
After a group of forage and genebank experts came together in Bonn, Germany, last year to start a new forage movement, there was recognition that more actions can be...
2 Jun 2016
2 Jun 2016