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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...

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...

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...

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,...

Years of drought pushed durum wheat out of parts of Morocco. Today, farmers, breeders  and the Crop Trust are working together to bring it back, developing new varieties designed for a harsher climate and the realities of farming....

What if one of the greatest opportunities to strengthen food security was already in farmers' fields – and in the knowledge passed from mother to daughter?

Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, women have cultivated, selected,...