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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,...

What nearly one million landrace records in Genesys can, and cannot, tell us about the history of collecting missions.

For more than a century, researchers and genebank staff have travelled the world collecting crop diversity and...

Farming in much of sub-Saharan Africa is not easy. But in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia, the risks have multiplied.

Pressures vary but point in the same direction – failed rains and depleted water sources in Kenya, droughts...