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The Crop Trust, officially known as the Global Crop Diversity Trust, is an international nonprofit organization with a secretariat in Bonn, Germany. Its mission is to conserve and make available the world's crop diversity for food security .
Geoffrey Hawtin, founding director at the Global Crop Diversity Trust, along with Cary Fowler, the U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security, won the $500,000 World Food Prize for their work to ...
[7] [13] The trust's mandate is to ensure "the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide." Fowler is known as the father of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault , which currently houses samples of more than one million distinct crop varieties.
While at IPGRI, Hawtin led the conception, design and establishment of the Global Crop Diversity Trust and served as its first CEO from 2003 to 2005. [13] [14] [15] In 2004, Hawtin joined a team to investigate the feasibility of establishing the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen. In 2006, the Norwegian Government ...
Cary Fowler, the U.S. special envoy for Global Food Security, and Geoffrey Hawtin, an agricultural scientist from the United Kingdom and executive board member at the Global Crop Diversity Trust ...
Two scientists were honored for their roles in a seed storage project meant to protect the world's food supply in total disaster. Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin of the Global Crop Diversity Trust and Dr ...
Haga replaced Cary Fowler as executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust in early 2013 and held that position until the end of 2019. Under Haga's leadership the Crop Trust became an independent international organization with a strong voice in agrobiodiversity conservation and use.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides ...