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Photo of carrots against black background.The Crop Wild Relatives Project utilizes the traits of wild relatives to improve heat, drought, and salt tolerance in cultivated carrots.
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Climate Proofing the Carrot: Where Flavor Meets Stress Tolerance

30 Aug 2022

4 Apr 2020
Pigeonpea: Food for DroughtPigeonpea is a nutritious legume that can produce harvests with just 65 cm of rain a year. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)
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Pigeonpea: Food for Drought

17 Aug 2022

30 Apr 2014
ICRISAT’s Damaris Odeny. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
News

Accessible Software for Accessible Seeds

25 May 2022

Women in Science: Shivali Sharma
News

From a Childhood in the Himalayas to Addressing Global Food Security: Shivali Sharma

8 Mar 2022

Seed Collecting, Conservation and Collaboration in West Africa
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Seed Collecting, Conservation and Collaboration in West Africa

27 Jan 2022

27 Jan 2022
A miniature forest of cassava carpets a hill in Sơn La Province, Vietnam, broken only by a small patch of tea. In Southeast Asia, cassava is grown by 8 million farmers for local consumption and, increasingly, export. 7.8 million metric tons of dried cassava circulate on the global market every year, and 7.7 million of these are grown in Southeast Asia. Vietnam is the second major exporter after nearby Thailand.A miniature forest of cassava carpets a hill in Sơn La Province, Vietnam, broken only by a small patch of tea. In Southeast Asia, cassava is grown by 8 million farmers for local consumption and, increasingly, export. 7.8 million metric tons of dried cassava circulate on the global market every year, and 7.7 million of these are grown in Southeast Asia. Vietnam is the second major exporter after nearby Thailand.
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GLF Climate 2021

20 Oct 2021

20 Oct 2021 - 20 Oct 2021
Farmers from Colpar in central Peru share their preferences for potatoes with researchers from the International Potato Center and Grupo Yanapai. Ultimately, the farmers will decide which potato varieties they plant in their fields so researchers are eager to get them involved early on in the selection process. Photo: Crop Trust/Michael MajorFarmers from Colpar in central Peru share their preferences for potatoes with researchers from the International Potato Center and Grupo Yanapai. Ultimately, the farmers will decide which potato varieties they plant in their fields so researchers are eager to get them involved early on in the selection process. Photo: Crop Trust/Michael Major
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Perfecting the Potato, With Help From Peru’s Farmers

15 Oct 2021

15 Oct 2021
CIP-Matilde tubers. Photo: CIPCIP-Matilde tubers. Photo: CIP
News

The Future of Food is Wild

12 Oct 2021

12 Oct 2021
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center's (CIMMYT) maize collection displayed at the center's genebank in MexicoInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center's (CIMMYT) maize collection displayed at the center's genebank in Mexico. Photo: Crop Trust
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Virtual Workshop on "Unlocking" the Value in Germplasm Collections

22 Jul 2021

22 Jul 2021
Farmers Know Best: Developing Salt-Tolerant Rice in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
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Farmers Know Best: Developing Salt-Tolerant Rice in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

22 Jun 2021

22 Jun 2021
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