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Tens of thousands of seed samples that were part of Ukraine's national seed collection have been destroyed by a Russian bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv, according to a video posted on YouTube on 14 May. The collection was the...

On this International Day of Biological Diversity, Ska Mirriam Moteane, a renowned chef from Lesotho, shares her opinion on the importance of crop diversity in overcoming her country’s challenges, and the joy it brings to our...

On May 18th, 2022, the new International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) Morocco genebank is set to officially open in Rabat, Morocco.

This state-of-the-art facility safely stores one of the world's...

I suspect that the well-being of plants is not much on people’s minds these days. Did you know that 2020 was the International Year of Plant Health, for example? We have had other things to worry about, after all. But plants do...

Genebanks and germplasm health units play a key role in ensuring plant health by protecting their seed collections from pests and diseases and by sharing seeds that are free of pests and pathogens with breeders and farmers around...

The Crop Trust is an international organization working to safeguard crop diversity, forever. Our mission is to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity worldwide.

A new global analysis is a big step in assessing the maintained diversity of landraces within 25 major crops in the genebanks worldwide.