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In honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Crop Trust is highlighting some of our past interviews with talented women who work to conserve the world’s seeds.

Fulfilling the Crop Trust’s mission to ensure...

Humanity is destroying biodiversity at an accelerating rate, and a major reason is agriculture. 

This is not a new revelation, but it is perhaps surprising, and welcome, that it should be repeated, with thorough documentation, by...

Season 3 - Episode 3

Relax, enjoy a cuppa and listen to this episode about coffee. Chef Daniel Kaplan and Chef Aylin Yazıcıoğlu discuss how coffee is an integral part of their respective cultures but explain how it can be...

Crops are often threatened by a range of unfriendly organisms, including various kinds of bacteria, fungi, insects and weeds. These plant predators hamper efforts to adapt agriculture to climate change because they often thrive in...

Season 3 - Episode 2

This episode focuses on sorghum, an under-appreciated crop mainly grown in Africa. Chef Ali Mandhry, a sorghum champion, shares recipes and his passion for this crop while working from his home in Mombasa,...

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Bananas come in a huge array of different types, some say perhaps a thousand or more distinct cultivated varieties, but there’s only one kind found in most grocery stores, the so-called Cavendish. Bananas are produced by growing...

When the Growing Gets Tough, the Tough Get Pre-breeding

Much like dogs have wolves, our familiar crops have undomesticated relatives growing in the wild, which often have useful traits not found in their cousins grown on farms. As...

Newly Published Research Shows When the Growing Gets Tough, the Tough Get Pre-Breeding

The successful results of a major global initiative to use crop wild relatives in breeding new, improved crop varieties that can withstand the...