Crop Wild Relatives
Accessible Software for Accessible Seeds
As any plant breeder and researcher will tell you, it’s all about the data. It’s the data that allows them to make smart choices about the crops they breed, speeding up the process of getting new varieties into farmers’ fields and...
25 May 2022
From a Childhood in the Himalayas to Addressing Global Food Security: Shivali Sharma
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented female scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
Shivali Sharma grew up...
8 Mar 2022
Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet
The world’s farmers urgently need new crop varieties that are resilient to such results of climate change as droughts and outbreaks of new pests and diseases.
A team led by Jaime Prohens at the Universitat Politècnica de València...
30 Jan 2022
30 Jan 2022
Seed Collecting, Conservation and Collaboration in West Africa
As a young boy growing up in Niger, Hamidou Falalou fell in love with the search for answers and knew he wanted to become a scientist. When, later, he saw climate change threatening local food security, he decided to dedicate his...
27 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022
GLF Climate 2021
GLF Climate: Forests, Food, Finance - Frontiers of Change
November 5, 2021 12:00 AM to November 7, 2021 11:59 PM CET
Online and in-person at the University of Glasgow
From November 5 to 7, climate heroes are gathering...
20 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 - 20 Oct 2021
Perfecting the Potato, With Help From Peru’s Farmers
This World Food Day, the International Potato Center (CIP) announced a new disease-resistant potato developed with the Crop Trust’s support. Called CIP-Matilde, this special spud was developed in collaboration with farmers and...
15 Oct 2021
15 Oct 2021
The Future of Food is Wild
Climate change is making it harder for farmers to grow enough food to feed their families. A new potato variety called CIP-Matilde, developed by the International Potato Center (CIP) with support from the Crop Trust, is the latest...
12 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021
![At Estancia Los Niños, Rene Milicevic shows us one of the three 60+ year old alfalfas that Jorge Ivelic from INIA collected in Magallanes [growing behind the ‘daisy’]. This unique sample is now included in the Crop Wild Relatives pre-breeding trials at INIA Kampenaike. Tolerance to drought and frost are traits that researchers are looking for in Magallanes. In the central part of Chile, researchers are searching for drought and heat tolerance. Photo: LS Salazar/Crop Trust](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/d/csm_BI5A1289_018999e7d0.jpg)
Greener Grows the Alfalfa in Chile
“You need to see it to believe it,” says Viviana Barahona, agronomist and extensionist at the Chilean Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) in Cauquenes, Chile.
“Picture this: you are standing in a yellow field, a...
19 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021
Virtual Workshop on "Unlocking" the Value in Germplasm Collections
Scientists from across the CGIAR, and its partner and donor organizations met in July 2021 to identify opportunities for enhancing use of crop germplasm collections.
Hosted by the CGIAR Genebank Platform, the workshop addressed...
22 Jul 2021
22 Jul 2021
Farmers Know Best: Developing Salt-Tolerant Rice in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Just like everybody needs somebody to love, every new crop variety needs a farmer.
Developing better seeds that can withstand the effects of climate change is only valuable if farmers show them a little love, and actually want to...
22 Jun 2021
22 Jun 2021