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Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz joined Caitlin Welsh, Director of the Global Food Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies for an episode of Reset the Table to consider the role of crop...

Carrots are tasty, versatile, and – while your tomatoes and cauliflowers go all squishy – easy to store for a long time. Most importantly, carrots are packed with micronutrients, especially the precursor of vitamin A.

But carrots...

The National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC) in Zambia is one of five national genebanks in Africa the Crop Trust is working with through its Seeds for Resilience (SFR) Project. This five-year project supports national...

Drought is a terrifying prospect for all farmers, and a matter of life and death for many. A nutritious legume that can produce harvests with just 65 cm of rain a year, pigeonpea protects lives from the ground up.

The Horn of...

It’s March in Chirundu District, in Zambia’s hot and humid lowlands near its border with Zimbabwe, and the track gives way to a field of towering sorghum, nodding sunflowers and rustling pearl millet. These crops have all reached...

A team of experts traveled to Ecuador and Peru to review the national genebanks in a visit organized by the Crop Trust under the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) Project.

Ecuador and Peru are...

Summers are getting hotter year on year. Parts of Europe and North America experienced record-breaking high temperatures in June and July 2022 with the U.K. even experiencing its hottest day ever.

While many of us can modify our...

Beans, sorghum, pearl millet, peas and lentils have a lot to offer. These nutritious crops are not only tasty, versatile, gluten-free and nutritious, but they are also pretty well adapted to hot and dry conditions, and have the...