Protecting Nutritional Security

Michael Pollan’s best-selling books and films raise awareness about where food in Western diets comes from, and why eating “real” food from diverse crops is so important.

Few writers have changed the way we think about food quite...

Conservation of agrobiodiversity bolsters nations’ well-being and resilience to crises.

Our view of national and global security should expand. Certainly, it means protecting against the threat of war, terrorism and espionage...

During the first few hours of daylight – before the sun gets high and it’s too hot outside – experimental fields at the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) research station in Cotonou, Benin, are buzzing with activity. Solar-powered...

As seed multiplication efforts for the durum wheat variety Jawahir continue, farmers in drought-stricken regions of Morocco get a first taste of its potential.

BONN, GERMANY, 17 June 2025 – “We prefer not to plant. It’s too dry,”...

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) is pleased to welcome the Crop  Trust as its newest member. Representing Crop Trust will be Jaspreet Stamm, Director of External Affairs and Conrad Rein, Secretary of the...

Every year, security experts and thought leaders from around the world gather in Munich to discuss the world's security policy challenges. The Crop Trust was invited to the 2025 Munich Security Conference to highlight how crop...

The World Vegetable Center’s genebank was recently renovated and officially inaugurated at a public ceremony in Tainan on Monday.

Originally funded in 2010 by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the facility was established as...

Nobody much likes writing long reports. Or indeed reading them.

But when the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launches the Third Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA),...

Staff count the cost of armed conflict and step up efforts to conserve Sudan’s unique collection of sorghum and other crops.

Almost two years after Sudan’s civil war broke out, the northeast African nation is experiencing one of...

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Partner organizations from across the globe are gathering in Norway this week to deposit seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, with Sudan making a deposit amid the country’s ongoing civil war

Longy...