- Climate change, the global pandemic, pest and pathogen outbreaks, and political instability are posing ever-increasing threats to genebanks around the world- In response, the Crop Trust and the Secretariat of the International Treaty on...

Rome, Italy, 27 October 2021 – The FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have released two publications with key strategic sets of characterization and evaluation descriptors for wild species...

Svalbard, Norway, October 2021 – The Benefit-sharing Fund project, GRAINEFIT, celebrated a unique milestone, with the first-ever deposit of Serbian crop varieties into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The 96 accessions, including varieties...

   

Rome, Italy, October 2021– Crop collection holders in low- and middle-income countries can take advantage of a new funding opportunity to support the duplication and safeguarding of their collections in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Genebanks all...