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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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New Potato Variety Offers a Lifeline to Farmers Battling Blight
Genebanks and global cooperation deliver versatile, climate-resilient solutions for farmers
Lima, Peru (06 November 2025) – The same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine nearly two centuries ago still devastates potato...
6 Nov 2025
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From a Childhood in the Himalayas to Addressing Global Food Security: Shivali Sharma
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented female scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
Shivali Sharma grew up...
8 Mar 2022
Sefra Alexandra on Listening to the Stories Within Seeds
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented female scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
If you have the...
4 Mar 2022
Food For a Curious Mind: Damaris Odeny on a Career in Agricultural Science
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
Damaris Achieng Odeny...
3 Mar 2022
11 Feb 2022
Feeding the World with Agricultural Science: Vania Azevedo
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
Vania Azevedo has...
1 Mar 2022
From Asking ‘Why?’ to Conducting Climate Research: Sophia Lüttringhaus
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
Sophia Lüttringhaus...
25 Feb 2022
Inclusion as a Woman in Science: Melinda Smale
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
Melinda Smale was...
18 Feb 2022
Crop Trust Remembers Executive Board Member Barbara Wells
All of us at the Crop Trust are deeply saddened by the sudden death of our Executive Board Member Barbara Wells.
Barbara was CGIAR’s Global Director of Genetic Innovation and Director General of the International Potato Center...
17 Feb 2022
Take a Look Inside the Latest Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors for the first seed deposit of 2022 this week.
10 genebanks from around the world deposited 39 boxes containing 20,443 seed samples, bringing the Seed Vault’s total seed count to...
15 Feb 2022
From a Childhood on a Farm to an Agricultural Scientist: Paula Bramel
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented women scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
More women are pursuing...
4 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022
Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet
The world’s farmers urgently need new crop varieties that are resilient to such results of climate change as droughts and outbreaks of new pests and diseases.
A team led by Jaime Prohens at the Universitat Politècnica de València...
30 Jan 2022
30 Jan 2022
Seed Collecting, Conservation and Collaboration in West Africa
As a young boy growing up in Niger, Hamidou Falalou fell in love with the search for answers and knew he wanted to become a scientist. When, later, he saw climate change threatening local food security, he decided to dedicate his...
27 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022
GRIN-Global Community Edition: A Collective Step Forward for Genebank Data Managers
All genebanks need sound data management to keep track of the inventories of seeds in their cold rooms and fields, and of all their interlinked processes.
For a long time, the CGIAR genebanks have taken their own unique...
7 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022