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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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Colombia Chooses Its Opportunity Crops
In the final hours of the two-day workshop, the discussion really heated up. More than 40 stakeholders from all over Colombia had gathered at the event to select the best opportunity crops to promote out of a long list of 48....
23 Jul 2025
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Greens from Asia for the World
In light of the second opening of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2023 and the World Vegetable Center’s deposit, which marks its 50th anniversary, we sat down to chat with Maarten van Zonneveld, genebank manager of the world’s...
8 Jun 2023
Securing the Foundation of Our Food Supply at -18° Celsius
The celebration of new deposits from 9 institutes, including international, regional and national genebanks, as well as smaller collection holders, will see the Global Svalbard Seed Vault's collection surpass 1.25 million seed...
6 Jun 2023
New BOLD Project Website Launched
Visitors can now learn all about the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) Project in a recently launched website. The Crop Trust developed the new BOLD website to provide in-depth information and...
1 Jun 2023
Extreme Beans: Conserving Vigna
The Crop Trust facilitated the update of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of Vigna and its wild relatives to help ensure food and nutrition security.
Have you ever eaten koki, Hoppin' John, chè đậu trắng, lǜdòu...
31 May 2023
An Endowment for the Ages
Crop diversity is under threat. Changes in land use, extreme weather events, shifting pests and diseases, even human conflict and strife, all mean that we cannot take the future existence of this diversity for granted.
But what...
22 May 2023
A Space for Landraces
We live in times that, though arguably plenty interesting enough already, seem to be in an unseemly hurry to become ever more so. Farming is not, alas, immune to all the excitement. I suppose that should not be surprising. We come...
22 May 2023
Ensuring the Camel of Crops Keeps Giving
The Crop Trust facilitated the update of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of sorghum and its wild relatives.
The “camel of crops” is a true physiological marvel. It’s one of our toughest cereals and can survive in...
18 May 2023
Genebanks from 15 countries visit IPK
Crop Trust and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) invited partners from developing countries to a workshop. Benjamin Kilian, coordinator of the BOLD project and a former IPK staff member, explains...
17 May 2023
Change Cows' Diets, Support the Environment
When it comes to sustainability, the livestock sector has a bad reputation. One way to reduce its environmental impact is to breed better forages: the grasses and other plants that are eaten by farm animals. The genetic resources...
4 May 2023
An Alfalfa That Loves the Cold
Zhongcao No. 3. When you first hear that name, you can be forgiven for thinking it’s an expensive perfume. But actually, it’s a Chinese variety of alfalfa.
It stands out for more than just its unusual moniker. This variety has...
25 Apr 2023
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