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A Genebank Platform Impact Fellow looks at the journey of beans from the genebank to farmers’ fields.

Stefania Sellitti may not be able to trace her family history back beyond her great grandfather, but she can trace the...

Interview: LM Salazar | Crop Trust

One could say that her professional relationship with coffee began with an old photograph of her late father. By chance, the image fell out of a book. He was standing in her family’s coffee...

Mmm coffee. Its aroma rises and lingers in the air. You not only smell it, but see it too, in the swirling steam that sways upward and dissipates into nothingness. It teases you: come on, take a sip.

For coffee lovers everywhere,...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science 

There’s an outfit called Conservation Optimism. Its mission is as its name suggests: inspiring biodiversity conservation through good news. I really admire their moxie, because optimism is a...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

With January already well underway, the Crop Trust communications team challenged me to pick five reasons to be excited about 2019. With so much work to choose from, it was no easy task. But as many of...

Interview: LM Salazar | Crop Trust

As we prepare for our next #CropsInColor trip, which will take us to Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador to explore the role coffee plays in people’s lives there, we reach out to Dr. Tim...

Michael Major, Crop Trust

Banner photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT

Genesys, the global online portal to information about plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) in genebanks, has been significantly enhanced with the...

Coffee is expected to be extinct in the wild within 65 years. Over the past three years, however, we have consumed more coffee than produced---while at the same time relying on just two varieties of coffee for the majority of...