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The Biodiversity Gift

Wambui Mbichi, host of the Farm to Table KE podcast, recently spoke to the Crop Trust's Nora Castañeda. Nora spoke about biodiversity and its contribution to food and nutrition security and agriculture. She also spoke about...

2 Feb 2023

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Ensuring Enough Eggplant for Everyone

The Crop Trust facilitated the development of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of eggplant and its wild relatives to help ensure food and nutrition security. 

If there was a contest for the most glamorous vegetable,...

1 Feb 2023

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Kenyan Farmers Welcome “Exotic” Sorghum

ICSWC 14RS 00020-3-47-1:201704 may be a mouthful, but to Kenyan farmers it could spell food security and better livelihood.

24 Jan 2023

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Protecting Vanilla, One of Our Favorite Flavors

Baking enthusiasts everywhere love to talk about vanilla—what type they like, how they use it, and of course, its delicious flavor and aroma.

But the “real” vanilla is under threat.

Vanilla pods are the fruit of orchids in the ...

18 Jan 2023

20 Dec 2021

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Forages: Key to Climate-resilient Livestock Systems

More than a billion smallholders depend on their livestock for food and livelihoods, and their livestock depend on a year-round supply of nutritious food.

Increasing demand for cheap meat and milk is widely blamed for driving...

13 Jan 2023

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A Treasure Trove of Crop Diversity, for Pakistan and the World

A team of genebank experts visited the Bio-resources Conservation Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan, in June 2022 as part of the Crop Trust's BOLD (Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development) Project. The review they...

10 Jan 2023

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123 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2023

The efforts of food and agriculture systems advocates will continue in 2023 to bring awareness and advocacy to some of our most pressing problems.

Food Tank is highlighting 123 organizations - including the Crop Trust - to follow...

30 Dec 2022

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