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Can rice breeding cut four minutes off the world’s favorite recipe?

Rice is the most frequently cooked and eaten grain on the planet, with well over a billion cooks bringing a pot to boil every day. It’s a very simple recipe, as...

Luis Salazar | Communications Manager

Photographer Toby Smith recently visited southern Africa for the Crop Trust’s #CropsInColor campaign. From the central highlands of Madagascar to the swamps of northern Zambia, Toby...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

The Pledging Conference has taken us one step closer to our final goal: assuring the world safeguards and has access to the crop diversity we need to feed ourselves today, and hopefully feed our progeny...

Crop diversity in focus: a global photography campaign was launched today celebrating the beauty and value of crop diversity around the world.

The campaign, #CropsInColor, will highlight the diversity of food crops and the role...

Following the recent AfricaRice deposit of 2,400 rice accessions to Svalbard, the Crop Trust sat down with Dr. Marie-Noëlle Ndjiondjop, Head of Genetic Resources Unit and GRiSP Theme 1 Leader for Africa at AfricaRice, to discuss...

23 March 2015, Brasilia: Landmark meeting with Global Crop Diversity Trust hosted by Embrapa takes place in Brasilia to discuss the key role that Brazil must play in food security.

Key figures from four government ministries will...