Jan 2016
15 January 2016
The Crop Trust, in partnership with KWS, hosted a luncheon for Ministers to share the importance of conserving crop diversity.
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14 January 2016
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development pledged an additional EUR 25 Million to the Crop Trust.
Press Release
Feb 2016
10 February 2016
Crop Trust Information Systems Manager, Matija Obreza, discussed the importance of Genesys, the online portal for plant genetic resources, in a video interview.
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21 February 2016
A capacity building workshop on collecting was held at MARDI headquarters and brought together participants from Pakistan, Vietnam, Nepal and Malaysia.
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22 February 2016
The Crop Trust's Executive Board held a successful board meeting in Addis, Ethiopia hosted by ILRI.
Marie's Corner
Mar 2016
2 March 2016
The University of Okayama in Japan and Seed Savers Exchange in the United States made the first deposit of 2016 with the deposit of 3,529 new accessions of barley and vegetable crops.
Press Release
2 March 2016
Distributions of hundreds of crop wild relatives were mapped globally to identify areas where they remain under-collected. The results of this “gap-analysis” were published in Nature Plants in March.
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16 March 2016
The 1st GOAL workshop of 2016 was hosted by IITA & brought together over 40 genebank specialists.
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Apr 2016
15 April 2016
The Conference brought together representatives from governments, private organizations and multi-lateral institutions from around the world to make a joint commitment to safeguard crop diversity.
Press Release
8 April 2016
“Safeguarding crop diversity, forever, is indeed a challenge – and a big responsibility - in which we must all partake.” - Her Excellency Ameenah Gurib-Fakim.
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15 April 2016
The Crop Trust and World Coffee Research announced a partnership to develop a global coffee conservation strategy for the world’s coffee diversity.
Press Release
May 2016
16 May 2016
The CWR project published its first animated video – highlighting exactly what the wild relatives of our domesticated crops are and why they are so important.
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23 May 2016
More than 8,000 varieties of crops from Germany, Thailand, New Zealand and Taiwan were deposited to the Vault.
Press Release
Jun 2016
8 June 2016
Researchers from CIAT and the Crop Trust looked at the origins of our food crops and quantified the level of interconnectedness of national diets in a study that is the first of its kind.
Press Release
27 June 2016
The first spotlight interview featured author and educator, Simran Sethi, who discussed her latest book, “Bread, Wine and Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love.”
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28 June 2016
"One breadfruit tree can feed an entire village, “ she said during her lunchtime seminar.
Breadfruit on Genesys
29 June 2016
Rhodes College representatives visited the Crop Trust. Since 2012, the Crop Trust has benefitted from having a fellow serve on our staff.
Our Staff
Jul 2016
13 July 2016
Staff attended the UNFCCC NAP Expo in Bonn, where our Executive Director, Marie Haga, discussed crop diversity and its role in mitigating the effects of climate change.
Crop Trust Events
27 July 2016
The Crop Trust traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia to discuss future collaboration with the N.I.Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry.
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Aug 2016
22 August 2016
Sophie Chou, from the World Vegetable Center spent 2 weeks at the Crop Trust learning about best data management practices and published the collection's latest passport data on Genesys.
Genesys
24 August 2016
The Crop Trust welcomed a pledge of USD 730,000 from the Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture.
Our Supporters
Sep 2016
24 September 2016
The Crop Trust accompanied our CWR partners in Central America on exploratory field trips where they searched for wild rice, bean, eggplant, potato and sweet potato.
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25 September 2016
A total of 53 genebank staff joined the Crop Trust in Nairobi, Kenya at ICRAF headquarters for the 2nd GOAL workshop. "We are what we repeatedly do. Quality then is not an act, but a habit."
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29 September 2016
The new genebank contains rangeland and forage species, faba beans, grass pea, and the wild relatives of cereals and pulses.
Press Release
Oct 2016
18 October 2016
First-time depositors from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Singapore joined 7 returning institutions in depositing 10,000 accessions to the Vault.
Press Release
21 October 2016
Chairing the Donor's Council for the first time was the Netherlands' FAO Ambassador, Dr. Hans Hoogeveen who announced further support to the Crop Trust from the Netherlands in the future.
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24 October 2016
We welcomed the Executive Board to our offices in Bonn. Board Chair, Mr. Walter Fust and member, Mary Ann Sayoc, were both re-nominated at the Donors' Council earlier in the month.
The Executive Board
31 October 2016
Executive Director, Marie Haga traveled to Wellington, New Zealand where she was pleased to sign a NZD 2M donor agreement with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Crop Trust & New Zealand
Nov 2016
1 November 2016
Marie then went to Canberra to sign 2 new agreements: an AUD 5M grant to the endowment and a project agreement: “Strengthening Crop Conservation Post Cyclone Winston.”
News in November
7 November 2016
The Crop Trust and India signed a MoU, inspired by our common objectives to protect crop diversity for the future of agriculture and in support of their new contribution.
Crop Trust & India
8 November 2016
The Crop Trust co-sponsored and participated in the 1st International Agro-biodiversity Congress held in New Delhi, India. While in the region, Marie Haga visited our partners at ICRISAT.
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9 November 2016
The Australian Grains Genebank (AGG) generously hosted this year’s AGM, which brought together scientists from across 18 countries.
In the News
Dec 2016
1 December 2016
Some of the world’s leading experts on ex situ conservation converged at our HQ in Bonn to discuss the current crop coverage of ex situ collections.
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