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The Crop Trust's Dr. Benjamin Kilian in Western Kenya with finger millet pre-breeding partner Dr. Chrispus Oduori of KALRO (left) and farmer Margaret Jubende. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)

Photo: Luis Salazar for Crop Trust

Finger millet pre-breeding at Maseno University in western Kenya. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

Moroccan farmer Abdellah Bounagua shows a spike of Nachit, a new variety developed from crop wild relative-derived durum wheat. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

Rice seed at Vietnam National Genebank. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

Farmers Mary Kwena and Mary Kwena displaying a wild finger millet in their fields in Matungu Sub-County of Kakamega County. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

Seeds samples in Mali packed and ready to be deposited at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in February 2023. Photo: Institut d’Economie Rurale, Mali

Jamal Mabrouki, ICARDA technician. Grasspea breeding at ICARDA's facilities at Marchouch Station, Morocco. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)

Alfalfa breeder Alan Humphries (SARDI) with the woody shrub Medicago arborea, a crop wild relative used to introduce new diversity into the alfalfa genepool, at the Waite Institute, Adelaide, South Australia. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

Researchers with the Chickpea Innovation Lab at one of the UC Davis greenhouse facilities carrying out advanced crossing of F2 populations. Photo: University of California-Davis