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Five Reasons to be Excited About 2019 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner With January already well underway, the Crop Trust communications team challenged me to pick five reasons to be excited about 2019.…

Wake Up and Smell the Good News Luigi Guarino | Director of Science  There’s an outfit called Conservation Optimism. Its mission is as its name suggests: inspiring biodiversity conservation…

CePaCT Donor Roundtable: Discussing support for the Pacific’s most important genebank Donors, Pacific Community (SPC) scientists and the Crop Trust will meet in Suva, Fiji, at the end of March to…

Our Food System: Facing a Titanic Problem? Luigi Guarino | Director of Science Whenever a new report on some aspect or other of the food system comes out, the metaphors start flying around. We saw…

Helping Data Leave Home Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs The relationship between scientists and their data can be a lot like that between overprotective parents and…

The Vavilov Collection Connection This week, the Crop Trust's Executive Board holds its semi-annual meeting at the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) in St. Petersburg, Russia.…

The World's "Coolest" Insurance Policy Turns 10 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Ten years ago, a group of plant scientists, politicians, engineers, media and more gathered on a snow-covered mountain on…

A Conversation with Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank Cierra Martin, Crop Trust 8 March 2018 – On International Women’s Day, the Crop Trust connects with Danielle Nierenberg, Co-founder and President…

Feasibility Study for a Safety Back-up Cryopreservation Facility This study was commissioned by Bioversity International, the International Potato Center (CIP) and the Crop Trust with financial…

Vitamin A-Biofortified Maize: Exploiting Native Genetic Variation for Nutrient Enrichment Science Brief: Biofortification | No.2 Vitamin A is important in immune function. Approximately one third of…