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Dryland Crops in Africa and Asia Get a Boost From Crop Trust and Germany
Agriculture in drought-prone regions took a major step forward when the Crop Trust and Germany’s federal government provided much-needed support for an international agricultural research institute focused on the drylands of...
7 Jan 2025
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Chef Dan Barber Talks Deliciousness Through Plant Breeding
Interview and photos: LM Salazar | Crop Trust
I met up with world-renowned chef Dan Barber during my recent #CropsInColor trip to the Northeast region of the United States. Dan has become a leading voice in the global...
6 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018
Supporting the Application of the FAO Genebank Standards
Bonnie Furman and Stefano Diulgheroff (FAO)
Luigi Guarino (Crop Trust)
How do genebank managers know they’re doing all they can to maintain the quality and availability of their collections?
Perhaps the most important tool at...
27 Nov 2018
27 Nov 2018
The Squashes of Autumn, From Domestication to Dessert
Words by Paul Cox for #CropsInColor
Photos by Luis Salazar, Crop Trust
In a field at dawn, Petra Page-Mann is picking squash. Although collectively known as “winter squash” for their thick-skinned ability to last right through a...
19 Nov 2018
19 Nov 2018
Securing the World’s Rice, Forever
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
This month was historic for the Crop Trust. For the first time, we agreed to fund a genebank with the longest possible time horizon – nothing less than forever.
The agreement with the International...
26 Oct 2018
26 Oct 2018
Genebanks Are Supposed To Be Forever
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
For as long ahead as we can usefully think, breeders, researchers, and indeed farmers, will need genebanks to help them get hold of seeds.
Those seeds are the key to ensuring...
12 Oct 2018
12 Oct 2018
A Day at the Crop Trust
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
Let me do a different Marie’s corner this time. I’ll give you a peek inside the organization on the morning of a random day – 18th September.
After a relatively early morning by the computer I walk to...
22 Sep 2018
22 Sep 2018
Measuring Mantras
The business guru Peter Drucker was fond of saying that you can’t improve what you can’t measure. It is debatable to what extent conservation resembles business, but conservationists certainly seem to have taken this particular...
12 Sep 2018
12 Sep 2018
The Art of the Multilateral Deal
Luigi Guarino | Crop Trust Director of Science and Programs
Imagine I’m your neighbour, and I have something you want, a tool say, to fix your car. Can we come to some arrangement that will make both of us happy?
Well, I could...
8 Aug 2018
8 Aug 2018
'Wild' Times at the Crop Trust
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
It’s been a particularly “wild” time for many Crop Trust staff recently, with teams heading to far-flung corners of the world - and often far off the beaten path - as part of the Crop Wild Relatives...
25 Jul 2018
25 Jul 2018
Securing East Africa’s Cassava
IITA is eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so it can safely be transported from East Africa to Nigeria.
Morag Ferguson is thrilled with the results of a recent genotyping study. It seems that the cassava landraces she has...
10 Jul 2018
Daniel Debouck: The Man Who Knows His Beans
The world’s leading expert on the diversity of beans has collected 4,000 accessions in 38 expeditions through 11 countries and has discovered 16 new species.
Daniel Debouck began his career with a bit of a quandary. It was 1977...
21 Jun 2018