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At the beginning of 2022, many of us expected this to be a year when life began to return to normal after the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. But while we have gradually begun to return to...

What behaves like a chameleon, comes in 50 shades of red, green, orange, yellow and even purple, and gets sweeter with age?

It may sound like a creature from a fairy tale, but the real world of plants has an answer all of its...

Reducing risks to genebanks in Nigeria and Benin is one of the objectives of the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) project. 

When the lights went out during the launch ceremony of the BOLD...

On Sustainable Gastronomy Day, the Crop Trust has linked up with its partners from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to cook up a menu of dishes based on beans and millets. 

Sustainable gastronomy takes into...

Last week, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) deposited seeds of traditional landraces of durum wheat, wild lentil and other crops on the frozen shelves in the depths of the Svalbard...

Farmers have selected, exchanged and conserved crop diversity for millennia, and continue to do so, because they know that their food security and livelihoods depend on it. Genebanks play an important supporting role to the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...