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LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY, 14 October 2026 – Genebanks from around the world deposited thousands of seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault yesterday, demonstrating how international cooperation helps protect the future of food....

BONN, Germany, 9 October 2026 – At its meeting in Bonn, the Executive Board of the Crop Trust has agreed on a number of forthcoming changes. This comes as the organization prepares for the next chapter in its mission to safeguard...

One bite of food tells a whole story – about the plant it came from, the place it grew and the people who prepared it. Its flavour can bring back memories or introduce us to something entirely new. Behind those experiences lies...

NEW DELHI, INDIA / BONN, GERMANY – 12 September 2026 – ICRISAT has secured long-term funding from the Crop Trust to conserve crop diversity that helps breeders develop higher-yielding, more resilient crops. The agreement will...

What if some of the crops best suited to improve nutrition, support farmers and strengthen climate resilience are already growing in fields across Africa – but they are just overlooked?

A new Crop Trust publication, Opportunity...

Years of drought pushed durum wheat out of parts of Morocco. Today, farmers, breeders  and the Crop Trust are working together to bring it back, developing new varieties designed for a harsher climate and the realities of farming....

What if one of the greatest opportunities to strengthen food security was already in farmers' fields – and in the knowledge passed from mother to daughter?

Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, women have cultivated, selected,...

What nearly one million landrace records in Genesys can, and cannot, tell us about the history of collecting missions.

For more than a century, researchers and genebank staff have travelled the world collecting crop diversity and...

Farming in much of sub-Saharan Africa is not easy. But in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia, the risks have multiplied.

Pressures vary but point in the same direction – failed rains and depleted water sources in Kenya, droughts...

Dr Peterson Wambugu is looking for seeds. He is on a collecting mission for the national genebank of Kenya, a Crop Trust Power of Diversity Funding Facility activity.

More specifically, he’s on a collecting mission to find finger...

In this edition of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate Arthur E. Watkins, the Cambridge botanist who collected wheat diversity before much of it disappeared from farmers’ fields. A century later, scientists are returning to his...