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Two recent features by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT spotlight how Colombia is working to scale the potential of locally important opportunity crops – and where barriers still hold them back.

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Potato, cassava, guava, passionfruit and peach palm are as Colombian as cumbia, Betty la Fea and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism. These crops are found in markets, kitchens and backyard gardens across the country,...

A new article by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) explores how AI is transforming crop breeding, describing it as a ‘force multiplier’ that can improve the pace, precision and scope of crop improvement....

A year ago, a small but influential group of crop diversity experts gathered at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in northern Italy to discuss a shared concern: the loss of vegetable biodiversity – and how to stop it.

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On a spring evening in Rome, leaders interested in global food security gathered for the German Embassy’s Climate Talks to discuss the very foundation of food – crop diversity. Ambassador Andreas von Brandt, Permanent...

Daniel Frans van Gilst, Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), is a long-time supporter of global crop diversity conservation, as well as the Crop Trust’s BOLD project. He recently shared his...

I grew up in a multi-ethnic community in the suburbs of a town in Inner Mongolia, in northern China. My grandmother is a farmer and has had a great influence on me. She often takes me back to the village where she grew up and...