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June 09
New study finds
that sharing genetic resources key to adaptation to climate
change in Africa - Stanford and Crop Trust researchers emphasize
need for collection and identification of crop varieties to
address growing conditions unlike any in existence today
May 09
Hunt for
“climate-ready” crops accelerates as organizations search seed
collections worldwide
"Hitched to
everything else in the universe" - Dependency in foods,
genebanks, crop varieties, trand and food prices, and the
environment
February 09
Global seed
vault marks 1-year anniversary with 4-ton shipment of seeds of
critical food crops
One of
history’s biggest biological rescue efforts poised to save
100,000 critical crop varieties from certain extinction - Push
by Global Crop Diversity Trust is rapidly reviving ailing seed
samples from 46 countries that could provide genetic traits
vital to maintaining global food security
Darwin on the
farm
January 09
Global Crop
Diversity Trust reaches important milestones in 2008
December 08
Name your
crisis
October 08
In the wake of
the financial, energy, climate and food crises, crop diversity
is key to ensuring global food supply
September 08
Global Crop
Diversity Trust scientists accelerate search for traits that
could arm agriculture against the impact of future changes
July 08
The Global Crop Diversity
Turst examines the global food
crisis
May 08
Tulip prices and
food crises - An analysis from the Global Crop Diversity Trust
February 08
Arctic seed
vault opens doors for 100 million seeds - Ceremony marking
unprecedented effort to protect global agriculture draws world
leaders and seeds from over 100 countries
La Chambre
forte semencière arctique ouvre ses portes à 100 millions de
graines
Arktischer Saatguttresor öffnet seine Türen für 100 Millionen
Samen
Il Deposito Artico di Sementi apre le porte a 100 milioni di
semi
Svalbard not the only safe haven
for crop diversity
ICRISAT's
germplasm to strengthen the collection at the Svalbard Global
Seed Vault
USDA/ARS and
Bioversity International partner with the Global Crop Diversity
Trust to develop a global plant
genebank information system
January 08
Keeping maize
and wheat seed safe against a global catastrophe
USDA's
Agricultural Research Service contributes seeds to Global
Storage Vault in Norway
USDA/ARS contribuye semillas a la Bóveda Global de Semillas
en Noruega
Global Seed
Vault in the Arctic will keep potatoes and sweet potatoes
Thousands of crop
varieties from the four corners of the world depart for Arctic seed
vault - Seeds contributed by global network of agricultural research
centers considered “crown jewels” of crop diversity
December 07
Global Crop
Diversity Trust to ensure the long-term availability of funds
for ICRISAT's genebank
November 07
We are not
hardwired to react to the crop diversity crisis
Engineers begin
critical cooling down of Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Des ingénieurs lancent le refroidissement crucial de la Dépôt
international pour les semences de Svalbard
Ingenieros comienzan enfriamiento crítico de la Bóveda Global de
Semillas de Svalbard
Gli ingegneri hanno dato inizio al cruciale raffreddamento del
deposito artico di sementi
May 07
Global Crop
Diversity Trust receives £10 million investment from UK's
Department for International Development
Genetic diversity is
key to solving future global challenges - Left unprotected,
genetic resources will be lost forever
Dinosaurs and crop
diversity: how great is the loss?
April 07
Gates Foundation
funds efforts to rescue 95 percent of the world's endangered
critical crop biodiversity - Historic effort to secure
biodiversity of 21 most important crops includes many "orphan
crops", critical to poor but often neglected by modern plant
breeding
March 07
New agreement to
permanently secure biodiversity of rice, the world’s most
important and most consumed crop
February 07
Architectural
plan revealed of doomsday arctic seed vault
September 06
Purpose and
cost-benefit ratios of germplasm collections
July 06
The International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - A real treaty
June 06
Scientists to employ Arctic
ice and polar bears to protect diversity of world's crops
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Des scientifiques pour l’emploi des glaces arctiques et des ours blancs
afin de protéger la diversité mondiale des cultures
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Científicos a Emplear Hielo Ártico y Osos Polares para Proteger la
Diversidad de los Cultivos Mundiales
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Ghiaccio artico e orsi polari a tutela della diversità delle colture
mondiali
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Wissenschaftler nutzen arktisches Eis und Polarbären zum Schutz der
weltweiten Kulturpflanzenvielfalt
May 06
Orphan crops
March 06
The genetics of water
January 06
Arctic cave to safeguard
global crop diversity - The seed banks will hold samples of all of the
world's crop varieties
November 05
A word about the Global Crop
Diversity Trust and its future
April 05
Crop diversity expert Dr.
Cary Fowler appointed Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity
Trust
February 05
Failure to maintain
global crop diversity is emerging as a major threat to U.S.
agriculture
October 04
Global Crop Diversity Trust
to conserve plant diversity -
Rich and poor nations sign on to save
seeds worldwide
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