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Let there be German Bread By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs There’s a reason why the tag line for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization is “Fiat panis,” or “Let there be…

Fact-checking the zeitgeist By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs We use 43 muscles to frown but only 17 to smile. 89.2% of all statistics are made up…

Australian Deposit into Svalbard and Australia's Crop Wild Relatives NEW AUSTRALIAN SEED DEPOSIT Indigenous crop wild relatives, brassica, oats among seeds that find safe haven in Svalbard Global…

The Eggplant CWR Pre-Breeding Project Valencia, Spain (15-16 May 2014) – Why eggplants? Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important vegetable crop, especially in tropical and subtropical…

India Deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault A box containing 25 accessions of pigeon pea marks first-ever seed deposit from India to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault In April 2014, India made its…

A Legend Retires: Jane Toll On the 23rd of October 1987, a young crop collector named Jane Toll was taking part in a collecting mission in central Chad, helping the staff of the young country’s…

More Than Just Talking Shop: AGM 2014 By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs All the genebank managers of the CGIAR centres get together every year as part of the CGIAR…

Seeds of Time A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food.

Gene banks of the world are…

Crop Trust Wins Video of the Day Award The Crop Trust's brand new video, Securing Our Food, Forever, has received the video of the day award by VOTD.TV. VOTD.TV awarded the Crop Trust…

A Busy Month North and South Marie Haga | Marie's Corner The 17th meeting of the Executive Board is taking place right now in Lima, Peru where we will discuss how we envisage the complete global…