Supercharging the Next Generation of Climate-Smart Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa
EUR 20 million project to boost genebanks’ efforts to conserve and share samples of key staple crops will drive climate resilient and diversified food production.
Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are facing the combined challenges...
27 Apr 2020
27 Apr 2020
ECPGR and the Crop Trust Sign Memorandum of Understanding
The European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) and the Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) welcome the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding for enhanced cooperation on 26 February 2020 at the...
26 Feb 2020
26 Feb 2020
Seeds from Royal Estate go to Kew and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Seeds from Royal Estate go to Kew and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Effort to Tackle Global Food Security
Hand-picked from the Wildflower meadow at Highgrove, the seeds represent plants that are disappearing from the UK...
25 Feb 2020
25 Feb 2020
Major Seed Deposit at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Longyearbyen
SVALBARD (25 February, 2020) - Today, 35 genebanks from all continents deposited seeds at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, at a deposit event hosted by Norwegian Prime Minister and co-chair of the UN group of SDG Advocates, Erna...
25 Feb 2020
25 Feb 2020
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 3
Andean potato diversity conserved in the International Potato Center genebank helps develop agriculture in Uganda: The example of Victoria.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 1
The Contribution of the International Rice Genebank (IRG) to Varietal Improvement and Farm Productivity in Eastern India.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 2
Reaching into the past to tackle new challenges: Improving wheat by conserving wild ‘goat grass’.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 4
The contribution of the CIAT genebank to the development of iron-biofortified beans and well-being of farm households in Rwanda.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 5
Dynamic conservation: Rematriating the Giant Maize “Jala”.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 6
On the trail of taro: The tale of taro leaf blight.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 7
The benefits of ICRAF tree fodder germplasm in smallholder agriculture.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 8
Tracing the benefits of ILRI forages to livestock producers in East Africa.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 9
Demand for and use of banana germplasm in Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 10
Assessing public demand for genetic resource conservation in the Czech Republic.
19 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts Brief No. 11
Demand for and use of banana germplasm in Latin America and the Caribbean.
19 Dec 2019
Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops
Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food
Bonn, Germany and Washington, DC (3 DECEMBER 2019)—As the world grapples with the challenge of sustainably...
2 Dec 2019
2 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts - Working Paper No. 1
A Sourcebook: Economics of conserving plant genetic resources in genebanks.
1 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts - Working Paper No. 2
Transferring diversity of goat grass to farmers’ fields through the development of synthetic hexaploid wheat.
1 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts - Working Paper No. 3
The contribution of the International Rice Genebank (IRG) to varietal improvement and crop productivity in Eastern India.
1 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts - Working Paper No. 4
The demand for Bioversity’s banana germplasm in Africa and Asia.
1 Dec 2019
Genebank Impacts - Working Paper No. 5
Searching for sources of resistance to taro leaf blight in collections from the Pacific.
1 Dec 2019