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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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Paula Bramel: Research Mentor Who Transformed Crop Diversity Institutions
In this edition of our Seed Heroes series, we pay tribute to U.S. scientist Paula Bramel, whose research, mentorship and leadership have been instrumental in building organizations and nurturing the next generation of agriculture...
4 Sep 2025
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Pigeonpea: Food for Drought
Drought is a terrifying prospect for all farmers, and a matter of life and death for many. A nutritious legume that can produce harvests with just 65 cm of rain a year, pigeonpea protects lives from the ground up.
The Horn of...
17 Aug 2022
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Farmers and Genebanks Explore Crop Diversity in Zambia
It’s March in Chirundu District, in Zambia’s hot and humid lowlands near its border with Zimbabwe, and the track gives way to a field of towering sorghum, nodding sunflowers and rustling pearl millet. These crops have all reached...
12 Aug 2022
Strengthening Genebanks in Ecuador and Peru
A team of experts traveled to Ecuador and Peru to review the national genebanks in a visit organized by the Crop Trust under the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) Project.
Ecuador and Peru are...
11 Aug 2022
Foods that Can Beat the Heat this Summer
Summers are getting hotter year on year. Parts of Europe and North America experienced record-breaking high temperatures in June and July 2022 with the U.K. even experiencing its hottest day ever.
While many of us can modify our...
4 Aug 2022
A Nutritious Future Starts in Genebanks
Beans, sorghum, pearl millet, peas and lentils have a lot to offer. These nutritious crops are not only tasty, versatile, gluten-free and nutritious, but they are also pretty well adapted to hot and dry conditions, and have the...
1 Aug 2022
Crops in the Pacific Get a Boost to Withstand Climate Change
Long-term food security in the Pacific is getting a much needed boost from the government of New Zealand and the Crop Trust.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta recently announced a NZD 10...
22 Jul 2022
The Bean That Could Withstand Hurricanes
Daniel Debouck doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he says he saw one once... or rather a ghost species.
Debouck, the former head of the genebank at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical...
13 Jul 2022
Artists For Plants and Svalbard Global Seed Vault Launch "Seeds Planting Art" International Call
The 2022 Artists For Plants international call is focused on artworks dedicated to seeds.
23 Jun 2022
Support for National Genebanks Underway
Seeds maintained in genebanks worldwide are the foundation of our future food and nutrition security.
16 Jun 2022
Sir Peter Crane's Reflections on the Last Year
After three years as Chair of the Executive Board of the Crop Trust, Sir Peter Crane is retiring and Catherine Bertini, a World Food Prize Laureate, will assume leadership. In his final letter in the Crop Trust annual report,...
14 Jun 2022
Svalbard Global Seed Vault Seed Collection Continues to Blossom
Two genebanks joined the growing number of depositors to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week and varieties of rice bean, lablab and yard-long bean from an Indigenous community were safely backed up for the first time.
In...
10 Jun 2022