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Crop Diversity Day 2026 Puts Flavour and Healthier Diets on the Menu
One bite of food tells a whole story – about the plant it came from, the place it grew and the people who prepared it. Its flavour can bring back memories or introduce us to something entirely new. Behind those experiences lies...
6 Oct 2026
Crop Diversity Day 2026: Celebrating Food Diversity for Healthy Diets
The event will bring together key actors from across the food and agriculture ecosystem – including policymakers, scientists, funders and practitioners – to explore how diverse crops and foods can support better diets while strengthening resilience and livelihoods.
25 Sept 2026
25 Sept 2026
Crop Diversity and the Stories That Matter
As conflict, climate change and consumer tastes reshape agriculture, plant breeders are responding with new, more resilient varieties of our favorite crops. But even the most advanced technologies depend on the crop diversity...
16 Sept 2026
ICRISAT Secures Long-term Crop Trust Funding for Key Legume Collections
NEW DELHI, INDIA / BONN, GERMANY – 12 September 2026 – ICRISAT has secured long-term funding from the Crop Trust to conserve crop diversity that helps breeders develop higher-yielding, more resilient crops. The agreement will...
12 Sept 2026
Future-Proofing Food: Career Pathways Conserving Crop Diversity for Resilience
Drylands are on the front line of climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and food and nutrition insecurity. As the Dryland Congress 2026 brings together global leaders, researchers, and policy makers under the theme of transforming agriculture in dryland regions, this Crop Trust side event will highlight the critical role of conserving and using crop diversity to build resilient and sustainable food systems.
11 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
Fifteen Crops That Could Help Build More Resilient Food Systems
What if some of the crops best suited to improve nutrition, support farmers and strengthen climate resilience are already growing in fields across Africa – but they are just overlooked?
A new Crop Trust publication, Opportunity...
7 Sept 2026
New Rice Varieties Bring More Options to Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Called Vietnam's ‘rice bowl’, the Mekong Delta is considered one of the most well-known and productive rice-growing regions in Southeast Asia. Today, farmers in the Delta have two new rice varieties approved for cultivation,...
4 Sept 2026