March 3, 2020
Crop breeders from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Morocco are using wild cousins of barley to to develop varieties that can survive on the fringes of the desert
February 27, 2020
European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources and the Crop Trust Sign Memorandum of Understanding
February 26, 2020
World Vegetable Center seed en route to the Global Seed Vault - More than 700 samples of 23 vegetable species headed for storage in Svalbard, Norway
February 25, 2020
Seeds from Royal Estate go to Kew and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in effort to tackle global food security
Major seed deposit at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Longyearbyen - Svalbard vault to receive seeds from 36 organizations as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten global food supplies
January 16, 2020
A little wild in our rice - To confront climate change, farmers in Vietnam bet on lines derived from wild rice
January 10, 2020
Brasil enviará no dia 10 nova remessa de sementes para o Banco Mundial de Sementes de Svalbard, na Noruega
December 18, 2019
Breathing new life into the global crop conservation strategies - The Crop Trust kicks off a new project funded by the German Government
December 5, 2019
Extreme weather could wipe out crucial food crops - Seed vaults are an 'insurance policy for the world's food.' 100 scientists just spent 6 years hunting for plant species around the globe to add to those vaults in case disaster strikes (Business Insider Nordic)
December 3, 2019
The race to find wild relatives of food plants before it's too late (New Scientist)
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 12, 2019
The Crop Trust appoints new Executive Director
November 11, 2019
ICARDA, the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, sends accessions to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway
November 8, 2019
The Plant Treaty: Q&A with Crop Trust Director of Science, Luigi Guarino
Pre-breeding work with grasspea and finger millet gets a boost
October 28, 2019
First seeds from Slovakia deposited in the Svalbard twilight
October 3, 2019
Neglected no longer: grasspea and finger millet pre-breeding get a boost
September 26, 2019
Early flowering African rice beats the heat
October 12, 2018
One of the world’s most important crop gene storehouses just got a funding boost (Science)
The world’s rice bowl: protected in perpetuity
March 12, 2018
Costa Rica envió 500 muestras a la Bóveda Mundial de Semillas (La Nación Costa Rica)
February 25, 2018
Norway to spend $13 million to upgrade doomsday seed vault (Bloomberg)
Costa Rica envía a Bóveda Mundial semillas de importancia global (El Economista)
February 23, 2018
Save the seeds - and the living plants we eat and use - Svalbard seed vault is the apex of a global network to protecting plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
February 22, 2018
Seed savers celebrate “Doomsday Vault” tenth anniversary
December 6, 2017
Repairs ordered for Svalbard's seed vault entrance (Views and News from Norway)
November 15, 2017
The global partnership working around the clock to save wild relatives of major crops (Food Tank)
October 16, 2017
The Crop Trust just got a new deposit of hurricane-resistant bean seeds (Newsweek)
June 8, 2017
South Australian researchers are preparing thousands of crop and pasture seed lots for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway
May 21, 2017
Improvements of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
www.croptrust.org
Copyright @ 1992-2026 SeedQuest - All rights reserved