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New BOLD Project Website Launched
Visitors can now learn all about the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) Project in a recently launched website. The Crop Trust developed the new BOLD website to provide in-depth information and...
1 Jun 2023
Extreme Beans: Conserving Vigna
The Crop Trust facilitated the update of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of Vigna and its wild relatives to help ensure food and nutrition security.
Have you ever eaten koki, Hoppin' John, chè đậu trắng, lǜdòu...
31 May 2023
Unlocking the Power of Diversity: The Role of Sorghum and Millets Genetic Resources in Sustainable Agriculture
An expert panel discussion on the conservation and use of sorghum and millet diversity.
24 May 2023
14 Jun 2023
An Endowment for the Ages
Crop diversity is under threat. Changes in land use, extreme weather events, shifting pests and diseases, even human conflict and strife, all mean that we cannot take the future existence of this diversity for granted.
But what...
22 May 2023
A Space for Landraces
We live in times that, though arguably plenty interesting enough already, seem to be in an unseemly hurry to become ever more so. Farming is not, alas, immune to all the excitement. I suppose that should not be surprising. We come...
22 May 2023
International Day of Biological Diversity 2023
Crop Trust photo exhibition at Bonn Botanic Gardens
19 May 2023
21 May 2023 - 21 May 2023
Ensuring the Camel of Crops Keeps Giving
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...
18 May 2023
Genebanks from 15 countries visit IPK
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...
17 May 2023