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The state of the global coffee industry was thrown into the public eye this summer as two of the world’s largest coffee exporters faced dire situations: drought and frost threatened crops in Brazil and surging COVID-19 cases in...

Since 2021, the CGIAR Genebank Platform Policy Module has developed and promoted an online course for CGIAR researchers and other CGIAR staff to dive deeply into the evolving international laws and policies that govern the sharing...

They say you get more flies with honey, but an experiment on alfalfa in Kazakhstan found you also get greater yields with honeybees.

The experiment is part of the Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) Project, a global initiative to adapt...

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A Q&A with Crop Trust Executive Director, Stefan Schmitz

A new project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented in partnership with the Deutsche...

Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director

It is often said that in the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity. These insightful words apply to the predicament in which the world finds itself today as climate change and...

Plant breeders developing new crop varieties are finding success after shifting their gaze from the fields to the stars.

Scientists at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Rabat,...

In the face of climate change, improving wheat varieties is essential to maintain yields—and genebanks are at the center of the process, a new study shows.

Published in a special issue of the journal Food Security, the study used...

Chickpea is an excellent source of dietary fiber, with calcium and magnesium to boot, but new research shows we can do even more with the popular legume to combat malnutrition.

A study published in a special issue of Crop Science...

New varieties of pearl millet that are more resilient to the effects of climate change are off to a promising start, a new study shows.

Pearl millet is an important cereal crop of the arid and semi-arid regions of Africa and...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

A healthy diet includes five servings of fruits & vegetables daily. Yet the cost of such a diet exceeds what the typical family spends on food in most countries in the Global South. Three...

Eyerusalem Arusi Morka shows what can be achieved when women have the opportunity to develop their talents.

In honor of International Women’s Day, which celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of...

The arid-zone grain sorghum can be made even more tolerant of drought, new research shows.

Drought tolerance in sorghum—the world’s fifth most important cereal crop—is measured in a number of different ways, including by looking...