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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…

The Gregor Mendel Foundation Honors ICARDA In a personal account of the event, our Deputy Executive Director Paula Bramel talks about the ceremony, which was held in Berlin on 19 March.  Last…

Q&A with AfricaRice Genebank Manager Following the recent AfricaRice deposit of 2,400 rice accessions to Svalbard, the Crop Trust sat down with Dr. Marie-Noëlle Ndjiondjop, Head of Genetic…

Picking Up Where We Left Off Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Picking up where we left off: my previous post was published from Lima, Peru, during our last Executive Board meeting. I would like to…

Open Letter to the Guardian, by Crop Trust Executive Director In reference to:  http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/20/the-doomsday-vault-seeds-save-post-apocalyptic-worl Dear Sir, Your…

Letter to the Donors of the CGIAR To the Donors of the CGIAR The Global Crop Diversity Trust has been established by the FAO and the CGIAR to secure and make available crop diversity for global food…

Four Things That Keep A Genebank Manager Awake At Night Dave Ellis, Genebank Manager at CIP in Lima, Peru, shares with our Crop Topics readers his views and concerns regarding the present state and…

G.O.A.L. - Raising Genebank Standards Janny van Beem, Genebank Quality Specialist at the Crop Trust, sums up the results of the first Genebank Operations and Advanced Learning (GOAL) workshop held in…

Is the System of Germplasm Sharing Global Enough Yet? 25 years of international exchange of plant genetic resources:  WHY The multilateral system needs a global management - A Conversation…

The Situation in September Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Potatoes From Peru Two weeks ago a delegation of farmers from the Potato Park deposited potato seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.…