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New BOLD Project Website Launched
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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

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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
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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

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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

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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
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International Day of Biological Diversity 2023

Crop Trust photo exhibition at Bonn Botanic Gardens

19 May 2023

21 May 2023 - 21 May 2023

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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

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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

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