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On 21 November, experts and leaders from all over the world gathered in Lima, Peru, for Crop Diversity Day 2025. This milestone event, co-hosted by the Crop Trust, the Plant Treaty Secretariat and the International Potato Centre...

Every seed in a genebank is on a journey. 

The journey starts when the seed is collected in the field, continues through various stages of cleaning and drying, takes a bit of a pause in long-term storage, and eventually continues...

The Crop Trust has launched a new online experience – Conserving & Using Crop Diversity.

This interactive website invites you to explore how the crops we eat are conserved, studied and used to build a more secure food future.

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Genebanks and global cooperation deliver versatile, climate-resilient solutions for farmers

Lima, Peru (06 November 2025) – The same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine nearly two centuries ago still devastates potato...

In a wheat field an hour’s drive south of Casablanca, Dr Ali Sahri and his team pose for a photo as the swaying spikes tickle their legs. Behind their smiles lies an awesome responsibility: to safeguard Morocco’s unique crop...

LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY, 22 October 2025 – Twenty genebanks representing every continent bar Antarctica deposited more than 21,000 seed samples to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week. Among them were new contributors from the...

Ecuador may be small in size, but it’s big in biodiversity. With landscapes that stretch from the Amazon to the Andes and even include the Galápagos Islands, this South American country is home to many plants and animals found...

As the world marks World Food Day on 16 October, the Crop Trust’s Power of Diversity Funding Facility highlights the results of national consultations with stakeholders to identify opportunity crops that boost nutrition,...

Kazakhstan releases its first drought- and heat-tolerant variety of alfalfa, one of the world’s most important feed crops.  Developed thanks to wild relatives seeds stored in local and global genebanks, the new variety...

In this edition of our Seed Heroes series, we salute Brazilian scientist Dr Vania Azevedo, who was just tapped to lead CGIAR’s global genebanks. In her previous job, her tireless advocacy for crop diversity helped create...

Pumpkin spice lattes, oat milk cappuccinos, flavored cold brews – coffee trends come and go. But behind every new flavor sensation is something much deeper: the diversity of the coffee plant itself. And that diversity is under...