Lucy Fisher and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast
Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz joins Lucy Fisher and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast to outline why genebanks are so important and what the Crop Trust is doing to support them. Skip ahead to 27 minutes to hear...
22 May 2022
Priceless Samples from Ukraine's Seed Bank Destroyed in Bomb Attack
Tens of thousands of seed samples that were part of Ukraine's national seed collection have been destroyed by a Russian bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv, according to a video posted on YouTube on 14 May. The collection was the...
19 May 2022
Africa’s Forgotten Crops Could Offset Growing Food Insecurity
The work of Crop Trust scientists was highlighted in this editorial by Michel Edmond Ghanem on behalf of 21 signatories in the journal Nature.
3 May 2022
Seed Banks: the Last Line of Defense Against a Threatening Global Food Crisis
As climate breakdown and worldwide conflict continue to place the food system at risk, seed banks from the Arctic to Lebanon try to safeguard biodiversity.
15 Apr 2022
Our Food System Isn't Ready for the Climate Crisis
The world's farms produce only a handful of varieties of bananas, avocados, coffee and other foods – leaving them more vulnerable to the climate breakdown
14 Apr 2022
Conserving Natural Capital to Ensure Our Future Food Supply
"Nature is more than a mere economic good. Nature nurtures and nourishes us, so we will think of assets as durable entities that not only have use value, but may also have intrinsic worth. Once we make that extension, the...
7 Apr 2022
New Seed Bank to Support Agriculture of the Future
As he points to a white shelf that holds bean seeds, Austrian biologist Peter Wenzl explains that one of them, obtained in Ecuador, provided a gene for the discovery that major seed protein arcelin offers resistance to the bean...
30 Mar 2022
Opinion: Out of Ukraine War, a Plan for Africa's Food Security
A foreign conflict has exposed Africa’s dependence on imports and is galvanising action to boost local food production and tackle climate threats.
28 Mar 2022
NACGRAB and Crop Trust Intensify Efforts on Using Resilient Seeds to Tackle Climate Change
THE National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB) and Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) are intesifying efforts on the adoption of resilient seeds by farmers to tackle climate change and ensure food...
1 Mar 2022