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Securing our food, forever

The Crop Trust continues to work on initiatives to deepen its network of government donors and establish partnerships with the private sector, NGOs and multilateral development institutions, both in…

Securing Our Food Forever

In this period of reduced overseas development aid and declining grants from governments, it has become necessary and urgent for the Crop Trust to explore new ways to engage a broader group of public…

Sacks of rice varieties

Secretariat of the Pacific Community Center for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT)

Crop diversity remains the key to meeting future food needs. Yet these resources are disappearing and diversity in the Pacific has been no exception to this trend. Mission The mission of CePaCT is…

Second International Agrobiodiversity Congress

Second International Agrobiodiversity Congress 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress November 15 – 18, 2021 Agrobiodiversity is the foundation of our lives. Increasing its sustainable use in…

A farmer tends to rice paddies at the Maname experimental farm in Tolima, where different varieties of exotic rice destined for Colombian restaurants are tested under local conditions. Over 90% of rice fields in the country are planted with modern varieties, usually bred with a very mixed ancestry from other regions of the world. Resistance to the destructive Latin American virus hoja blanca, for example, has been found in a variety from Taiwan and a few African lines.

Scientists to Employ Arctic Ice To Protect Diversity of World's Crops

Scientists to Employ Arctic Ice To Protect Diversity of World's Crops SVALBARD, NORWAY (19 June 2006)—On an island near the North Pole, heads of State from five Nordic countries and the Global Crop…

Scientific Community Calls To Halt Destruction of Pavlovsk Station

Scientific Community Calls To Halt Destruction of Pavlovsk Station ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (9 September 2010)—Momentum behind a global effort to save Europe’s most important collection of fruits…

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