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January 18, 2024


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


October 3, 2022


Pour la promotion des semences paysannes en Tunisie (Kapitalis)


August 16, 2022


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


July 15, 2022


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


May 31, 2022


African scientists launch biodiversity genomics revolution


May 23, 2022


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


May 18, 2022


Crop diversity is the foundation of food sovereignty


March 28, 2022


Tanzania - Why seed banks establishment is crucial (AllAfrica)


March 18, 2022


Opinion: GMO cowpea can support biodiversity


January 27, 2022


Seed collecting, conservation and collaboration in West Africa


October 29, 2021


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


July 29, 2021


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


July 2, 2021


Why crop diversity matters for testoring Africa’s drylands


May 31, 2021


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


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


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


May 26, 2020


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


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


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


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


February 24, 2020


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


December 3, 2019


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


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


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


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


September 13, 2019


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


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


March 28, 2019


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


March 21, 2019


Biopiracy: The misuse of patenting systems at the disadvantage of local communities


February 26, 2019


How crowdsourcing seeds can help farmers adapt to climate change


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