'Doomsday' Arctic seed vault gets boost as efforts to secure food supplies ramp up
LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A 'doomsday' Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island is set to receive its most diverse batch of seed donations yet as efforts to secure the world's food supplies ramp up amid rising climate...
1 Mar 2023
South Australian Alfalfa Knowledge to the World
Researchers from the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) have joined forces with the Crop Trust in a three-year effort to use wild relatives of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) to improve alfalfa varieties...
20 Feb 2023
BOLD funding for GridScore and Germinate
The Crop Trust's BOLD project has awarded the James Hutton Institute with funding to further develop its innovative software to support global food security efforts.
Hutton’s homegrown software platforms, GridScore and Germinate,...
3 Feb 2023
The Biodiversity Gift
Wambui Mbichi, host of the Farm to Table KE podcast, recently spoke to the Crop Trust's Nora Castañeda. Nora spoke about biodiversity and its contribution to food and nutrition security and agriculture. She also spoke about...
2 Feb 2023
123 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2023
The efforts of food and agriculture systems advocates will continue in 2023 to bring awareness and advocacy to some of our most pressing problems.
Food Tank is highlighting 123 organizations - including the Crop Trust - to follow...
30 Dec 2022
How Changing Diets Leave Us Exposed to War, Extreme Weather and Market Turbulence
The convergence of global diets means just three crops provide 50% of the world’s calories. When shocks come, they hurt.
Bagels in New York. Cakes in Beijing. Instant noodles in Jakarta. Daily habits for billions, yet just a...
21 Dec 2022
Harnessing the power of wild potatoes to feed a climate-challenged world while reducing agrochemical use
Lima, Peru, December 21, 2022 – As the global population burgeons past 8 billion and climate change makes it harder to grow food, scientists in South America are tapping the power of wild potatoes to breed disease-resistant and...
21 Dec 2022
Biodiversity protection “window of opportunity is closing,” warn scientists at COP15
Authorities are trying to adopt a new set of goals to prevent and reverse the loss of nature. At COP15 in Montreal, delegates are discussing a global biodiversity framework with clear targets for overexploitation, pollution and...
16 Dec 2022
‘Without Nature, We Have Nothing’: Un Chief Sounds Alarm at Key Un Biodiversity Event
The UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, began on Tuesday in Montreal, Canada, where negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, due by human activity.
The conference is...
6 Dec 2022