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Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Another day, another report telling us that the food system must change. The latest is from the U.N. Committee on World Food Security’s High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) and, although it has...

For International Day of the Tropics, we're taking a look at a genebank for pacific crops and trees. When we talk about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault being the tip of the iceberg of a global system of crop conservation, the...

The Crop Trust’s Seeds for Resilience project is supporting genebanks in Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Ghana to improve their capacity to conserve their collections of crop diversity and make them available to scientists...

Tasty Local Insight from the GLF Bonn Digital Conference 2020

This article is part of a series on sustainable food produced in collaboration with the Global Landscapes Forum

At the Global Landscape Forum’s 2020 digital...

Early this year, the Crop Trust’s very own Luis Salazar visited Argentina, where our Crop Wild Relatives Project pre-breeding partners from the National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA in the Spanish acronym) are...

At the GLF Bonn 2020 digital conference on food in the time of crises, Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz gave an inspirational talk about the importance of crop diversity and the need for us to rethink our food systems....

The crop diversity in CGIAR's international genebanks continues to be in great demand. That's music to the ears of genebank managers, who naturally want to see their carefully conserved collections put to good use. But it also...

Taking stock on World Hunger Day, more than 820 million people around the world do not have enough to eat. The vast majority of these people live in developing countries. According to the Hunger Project, half of the world’s hungry...

Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director

Banner photo: CIAT/Stephanie Malyon

Many of us take eating three nutritious meals each day for granted. The reality is that, for many others, such bounty is unattainable. A new report has...

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Today is International Day for Biological Diversity, and the theme this year is “Our solutions are in nature.” That’s easy enough to say, and of course very topical, not to mention sounding...

The cowpea keeps millions of people fed every day—but with the climate crisis threatening production, scientists are finding ways to increase its yields and hardiness.

“The cowpea has nourished people for many centuries,” said Ou...

The casual foodie might know a few fun facts about the chickpea. It’s a core ingredient in hummus, yes. It’s stuffed with protein, healthy fibers, vitamins and antioxidants, sure. It’s a versatile, nutritious ingredient that can...