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Researchers from the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) have joined forces with the Crop Trust in a three-year effort to use wild relatives of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) to improve alfalfa varieties...

The wild, weedy relatives of our cultivated crops display all kinds of useful traits their domesticated cousins lack – traits that could make our agriculture more resilient to future challenges.

But it takes a lot of time and...

The peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), also known as groundnut, is native to South America but is now grown throughout the tropics and subtropics. There, this delicious legume is a subsistence crop for many, as well as an important...

This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating the importance of crop diversity with a series of cards you can print and give to your loved ones. Scroll to the bottom of this post to download them.

To some, chickpeas are synonymous with hummus. But that’s a pretty limited view of a crop that is the second most eaten pulse in the world.

Chana dal, Burmese tofu, farinata di ceci, chana masala, chakhchoukha, guasanas. They’re...

A team of genebank specialists recently reviewed national crop genebanks in Uganda and Tanzania as part of the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) Project.

The Crop Trust's BOLD project has awarded the James Hutton Institute with funding to further develop its innovative software to support global food security efforts.

Hutton’s homegrown software platforms, GridScore and Germinate,...