June 30, 2020

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A haven of diversity - A look at a genebank for Pacific crops and trees

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 11, 2020

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A Sunflower Story - The Crop Trust’s Luis Salazar visits Argentina, where our Crop Wild Relatives Project pre-breeding partners from INTA, the National Agricultural Technology Institute, are evaluating hundreds of new crosses between wild and domesticated sunflowers

June 8, 2020

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CGIAR’s international genebanks - GreenPass, a special protocol which guarantees that best practices are used at all stages of handling a seed transfer, puts germplasm distribution in the fast lane

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 22, 2020

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Big, dynamic, and complicated: celebrating International Day for Biological Diversity

International Hummus Day: Celebrating the chickpea

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

May 7, 2020

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Zhongcao No. 3, a new Chinese variety of alfalfa that loves the cold

May 1, 2020

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Svalbard, A day in the life - Touching base with Åsmund Asdal, Seed Vault Coordinator, NordGen

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

April 22, 2020

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Nach Umbau: Arktischer Saatgut-Tresor vor Tauwetter geschützt (BR24)

April 15, 2020

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Cryopreservation and the future of plant conservation

April 6, 2020

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Climate proofing the carrot: where flavor meets stress tolerance - In a multi-country effort, researchers are developing carrots to withstand a changing climate

March 24, 2020

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

March 18, 2020

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Largest seed deposit in a decade at Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrates diversity (Food Tank)

March 3, 2020

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Crop breeders from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Morocco are using wild cousins of barley to to develop varieties that can survive on the fringes of the desert

February 27, 2020

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European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources and the Crop Trust Sign Memorandum of Understanding

February 26, 2020

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World Vegetable Center seed en route to the Global Seed Vault - More than 700 samples of 23 vegetable species headed for storage in Svalbard, Norway

February 25, 2020

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Seeds from Royal Estate go to Kew and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in effort to tackle global food security

Major seed deposit at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Longyearbyen - Svalbard vault to receive seeds from 36 organizations as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten global food supplies

January 16, 2020

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A little wild in our rice - To confront climate change, farmers in Vietnam bet on lines derived from wild rice

January 10, 2020

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Brasil enviará no dia 10 nova remessa de sementes para o Banco Mundial de Sementes de Svalbard, na Noruega

December 18, 2019

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Breathing new life into the global crop conservation strategies - The Crop Trust kicks off a new project funded by the German Government

December 5, 2019

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Extreme weather could wipe out crucial food crops - Seed vaults are an 'insurance policy for the world's food.' 100 scientists just spent 6 years hunting for plant species around the globe to add to those vaults in case disaster strikes (Business Insider Nordic)

December 3, 2019

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The race to find wild relatives of food plants before it's too late (New Scientist)

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 12, 2019

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The Crop Trust appoints new Executive Director

November 11, 2019

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ICARDA, the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, sends accessions to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

November 8, 2019

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