June 27, 2024

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‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits - Historic traits could make modern wheat more resilient to disease and other stressors (Science)

June 13, 2024

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Safeguarding Africa’s diverse food crop seed collections against climate threats (The Africa Report)

January 18, 2024

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Taking diversity out of the genebank and into farmers’ fields in Ghana

October 3, 2022

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Pour la promotion des semences paysannes en Tunisie (Kapitalis)

August 16, 2022

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Algérie - La Banque nationale des semences est garante d'une sécurité alimentaire durable (Algérie Presse Service)

July 15, 2022

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African-led genome assembly of lablab bean marks step forward in diversifying global food supply

May 31, 2022

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African scientists launch biodiversity genomics revolution

May 23, 2022

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"Our seeds could start the next Green Revolution." - An interview with Dr. Athanasios Tsivelikas, Manager of the ICARDA Morocco genebank

May 18, 2022

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Crop diversity is the foundation of food sovereignty

March 28, 2022

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Tanzania - Why seed banks establishment is crucial (AllAfrica)

March 18, 2022

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Opinion: GMO cowpea can support biodiversity

January 27, 2022

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Seed collecting, conservation and collaboration in West Africa

October 29, 2021

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Securing the future of African food culture - One phenotype at a time

July 29, 2021

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The gatekeepers of Mozambique's community seed banks (AllAfrica)

July 2, 2021

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Why crop diversity matters for testoring Africa’s drylands

May 31, 2021

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Burkina Faso : La Coalition pour la Protection du Patrimoine Génétique Africain prône l’utilisation des semences paysannes dans la maraichéculture (Burkina 24)

June 23, 2020

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The Crop Trust’s Seeds4Resilience project: Safeguarding key crops in national genebanks in Africa - A chat with Project Manager Nora Castañeda-Álvarez

June 8, 2020

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The African Orphan Crops Consortium - Addressing Africa's nutrition challenges by strengthening indigenous crops (AllAfrica)

May 26, 2020

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Pandemics aren’t limited to people: How the world’s most famous seed vault defends plants against their next big outbreak (The  Counter)

May 18, 2020

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The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Global Seed Vault
Il Trattato Internazionale e il Deposito Globale di Semi delle Isole Svalbard

April 28, 2020

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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

March 24, 2020

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‘Tip of the Iceberg’ by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director

February 24, 2020

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World’s food systems rely on biodiversity - FAO Director-General urges “robust” outcome from Convention on Biological Diversity negotiations

December 3, 2019

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Wild plants from four continents deliver climate change lifeline for xrops - Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food

November 14, 2019

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New tool to help local crop varieties flourish - FAO publishes Voluntary Guidelines for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Farmers Varieties/Landraces

November 11, 2019

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Global treaty critical for saving disappearing plants amid climate change - FAO calls for greater support for plant genepool and the Fund which support millions of farmers around the world

November 8, 2019

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The Plant Treaty: Q&A with Crop Trust Director of Science, Luigi Guarino

September 13, 2019

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Can the gene editing technology known as CRISPR help reduce biodiversity loss worldwide? Though scientists are optimistic that CRISPR could help, they also emphasize caution and community engagement in order to get it right (Ensia)

June 13, 2019

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Climate-smart community seed banks conserve and share essential farm biodiversity resources

March 28, 2019

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SPGRC in Zambia urge all the world’s gene banks to use the Svalbard Global Seed Vault