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From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.
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Building a Stronger Genebank Network, One Connection at a Time
In a world in which growing food demand is about the only certainty, digital tools are helping genebanks conserve and share the crop diversity that underpins our global food security.
By streamlining operations and connecting...
9 May 2025
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Chill Solution for Meeting Future Demand of Sweetpotato
From Lima to Lusaka, open the menu of one of the fancier burger joints and you may well find fries made from sweetpotatoes rather than the more common, blander sort of tuber. The value chain that ensures that this delicious snack...
31 Mar 2023
Millets: Use Them or Lose Them
2023 marks the International Year of Millets – hardy, nutritious crops that are in decline. A recently published global conservation strategy maps out how to keep millets on our plates.
They’re hardy, reliable, rich in...
30 Mar 2023
Exchanging Crop Diversity Safely, the CGIAR Way
Key messages
CGIAR genebanks work closely with germplasm health units (GHUs) to ensure that the plant material they send is safe to cross borders. The GHUs have had a huge economic impact in recipient countries. IRRI’s...
27 Mar 2023
Chilling Out for Conservation
CGIAR genebanks are using cryopreservation for the long-term conservation of crops that can’t be stored as seeds.
Molecules in living organisms are always racing around. That movement is what keeps us alive – and what...
23 Mar 2023
Revival and Survival of Repatriated Potato Landraces in the Andes
Take home messages
Potato landraces collected in farmers’ fields are being “repatriated” back to the farmers. A study was conducted to determine how long Andean farmers continue to use repatriated landraces after...
21 Mar 2023
Protecting Your Pumpkin from Climate Change
'Curcurbits' isn't really a term we use around the dinner table ... but we sure love to eat them. Pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, watermelons, musk melons, chayote ... and don't forget the egusi melons. They are all curcubits, and...
16 Mar 2023
29 Oct 2021
More than Rice: An Inside Look at the Vietnam National Genebank
Genebank experts supported by the Crop Trust’s BOLD (Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development) Project recently visited the Vietnam National Genebank to evaluate its efforts to conserve crop diversity. Vietnam...
14 Mar 2023
Cowpeas in Nigeria Can Trace Ancestry to Genebanks
Take home messages
Four out of every 10 Nigerian cowpea farmers surveyed are growing an improved cowpea variety that can link its ancestry back to a genebank The use of improved varieties has not diminished the diversity...
7 Mar 2023
Svalbard Global Seed Vault Celebrates 15th Year With Historic Deposit
Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 28 February 2023 – As part of its 15th anniversary celebrations, today the Svalbard Global Seed Vault welcomes 20 genebank depositors. 19,585 seed samples will enter the Seed Vault, including collections...
28 Feb 2023
15 Years of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
15 Years of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault:
New deposit from 20 genebanks and a new virtual tour to celebrate the remote Arctic seed store
28 Feb 2023
Building a Toolbox of Sorghum Diversity
The wild, weedy relatives of our cultivated crops display all kinds of useful traits their domesticated cousins lack – traits that could make our agriculture more resilient to future challenges.
But it takes a lot of time and...
17 Feb 2023