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The Crop Trust facilitated the update of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of sorghum and its wild relatives.

The “camel of crops” is a true physiological marvel. It’s one of our toughest cereals and can survive in...

Crop Trust and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) invited partners from developing countries to a workshop. Benjamin Kilian, coordinator of the BOLD project and a former IPK staff member, explains...

Food security and the development of a strategy to conserve germplasm of great importance for Mesoamerican agriculture is the main interest that leads CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) and the Crop...

When it comes to sustainability, the livestock sector has a bad reputation. One way to reduce its environmental impact is to breed better forages: the grasses and other plants that are eaten by farm animals. The genetic resources...

Unique plant genetic resources have been transported over a thousand kilometres from Kharkiv to the west of Ukraine.

To conserve Ukraine’s agricultural heritage, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the...

Zhongcao No. 3. When you first hear that name, you can be forgiven for thinking it’s an expensive perfume. But actually, it’s a Chinese variety of alfalfa. 

It stands out for more than just its unusual moniker. This variety has...