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Global Project Underway to Preserve Yam Biodiversity BENIN (8 September 2010)—Farmers and crop scientists worldwide are engaged in an ambitious new effort to add 3,000 yam samples to international…

Scientific Community Calls To Halt Destruction of Pavlovsk Station ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (9 September 2010)—Momentum behind a global effort to save Europe’s most important collection of fruits…

50,000 Petitioners Support Russian Genebank ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (21 September 2010)—A global social media campaign to save Europe’s most important collection of fruits and berries has…

Coalition to Rescue Indigenous Pacific Island Crops SYDNEY (22 October 2010)—Hoping to save the vulnerable varieties of bananas painted by the artist Paul Gauguin, rare coconuts, and 1,000 other…

Norway Pledges to Support Crop Wild Relatives ROME (10 December 2010)—The Global Crop Diversity Trust today announced a major global search to systematically find, gather, catalogue, use, and save…

Sacred Valley of the Incas to Send Potatoes to Seed Vault CUSCO, PERU (15 February 2011)—As climate change and disease threaten potato farming in the tuber’s ancestral home in the Peruvian…

Seeds Added to Growing Collection of Global Seed Vault LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY (25 February 2011)—The Svalbard Global Seed Vault  celebrated its third anniversary today with the arrival of…

New Shipments to Seed Vault in February 2012 LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY (28 February 2012)—Rare wheat collected from the “Roof of the World” in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan; amaranth, with its…

Crop Trust Announces New Executive Director ROME, ITALY (18 October 2012)—The Global Crop Diversity Trust announced today the appointment of Marie Haga as its next Executive Director. The…

Crop Trust Welcomed to Germany Bonn, Germany (22 May 2013)—The Global Crop Diversity Trust was welcomed to Germany today by the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection, Ms.…