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Millets: Use Them or Lose Them
2023 marks the International Year of Millets – hardy, nutritious crops that are in decline. A recently published global conservation strategy maps out how to keep millets on our plates.
They’re hardy, reliable, rich in...
30 Mar 2023
Global Seed Vault Becomes More Important Than Ever As Climate Change Threatens Crops
When you think of fresh produce and fields of grain, the Arctic may not spring to mind. But just 800 miles from the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds emergency stockpiles of most of the world's crops.
It provides...
30 Mar 2023
Rhodes Graduates Reap Benefits from Decade-Long Ties to Global Seed Vault
Food security affects everyone from farmers to scientists, economists to elected officials, and nutritionists to consumers. In a snow-capped mountain located between mainland Norway and the North Pole is the Svalbard Global Seed...
30 Mar 2023
Exchanging Crop Diversity Safely, the CGIAR Way
Key messages
CGIAR genebanks work closely with germplasm health units (GHUs) to ensure that the plant material they send is safe to cross borders. The GHUs have had a huge economic impact in recipient countries. IRRI’s...
27 Mar 2023
Chilling Out for Conservation
CGIAR genebanks are using cryopreservation for the long-term conservation of crops that can’t be stored as seeds.
Molecules in living organisms are always racing around. That movement is what keeps us alive – and what...
23 Mar 2023
Revival and Survival of Repatriated Potato Landraces in the Andes
Take home messages
Potato landraces collected in farmers’ fields are being “repatriated” back to the farmers. A study was conducted to determine how long Andean farmers continue to use repatriated landraces after...
21 Mar 2023
New Drought-tolerant Varieties of Durum Wheat and Barley for Morocco
An international collaboration of world-leading scientists led by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), and supported by the Crop Trust, has delivered six new durum wheat and barley...
17 Mar 2023
Protecting Your Pumpkin from Climate Change
'Curcurbits' isn't really a term we use around the dinner table ... but we sure love to eat them. Pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, watermelons, musk melons, chayote ... and don't forget the egusi melons. They are all curcubits, and...
16 Mar 2023
29 Oct 2021
More than Rice: An Inside Look at the Vietnam National Genebank
Genebank experts supported by the Crop Trust’s BOLD (Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development) Project recently visited the Vietnam National Genebank to evaluate its efforts to conserve crop diversity. Vietnam...
14 Mar 2023