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Unlocking Hidden Gems: a BOLD Journey to Resilient and Diverse Crops
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Unlocking Hidden Gems: a BOLD Journey to Resilient and Diverse Crops

What do alfalfa, barley, durum wheat, finger millet, grasspea, potato, and rice have in common? They’re all included in the Crop Trust’s BOLD project, which works to expand their genetic diversity.

3 Jul 2024

A group picture of the participants of the Grasspea Day in Ghent
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Grasspea Innovation Shines in Ghent

In June, the picturesque city of Ghent, Belgium, gathered grasspea fans and experts at the inaugural International Lathyrus Day.

Organized by the Fernand Lambein Fund and sponsored by the Crop Trust, this event honored the...

26 Jun 2024

Enjoy Katie Parla’s Grasspea Soup – At Your Own Risk
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Enjoy Katie Parla’s Grasspea Soup – At Your Own Risk

Some foods are delicious but dangerous. Fubu, or puffer fish, is an extreme example: only trained chefs are allowed to prepare the funny-looking fish for risk-loving gourmets. 

But humans have also accepted risk in more prosaic...

24 Jun 2024

Evangelina Villegas: The First Woman to Receive the World Food Prize
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Evangelina Villegas: The First Woman to Receive the World Food Prize

In this installment of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate the life of Mexican scientist Evangelina Villegas, who co-developed a new variety of protein-building maize that improved diets for millions of malnourished people around...

19 Jun 2024

Keeping Malan Alive in Central Kalimantan
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Keeping Malan Alive in Central Kalimantan

Papa Dewi looked out at fields covered with a kaleidoscope of crops: rice, cowpea, eggplant, maize, and more. “This is our way of life,” said the Dayak farmer from Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan. “This is malan.”

Malan means...

18 Jun 2024

His Majesty King Charles III Continues Patronage of Crop Trust
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His Majesty King Charles III Continues Patronage of Crop Trust

June 3, 2024 – Bonn, Germany – The Crop Trust is delighted that, following a review of the patronages of the late Queen and the former Prince of Wales, His Majesty King Charles III has decided to continue to be its Patron....

3 Jun 2024

The One That Makes the Daughter-In-Law Cry and Other Potato Recipes From the Women of the Potato Park
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The One That Makes the Daughter-In-Law Cry and Other Potato Recipes From the Women of the Potato Park

Is there a food that’s more emblematic of Peru than the potato? Long, round, bumpy, yellow, purple, red. Every imaginable shape and color is on the menu. And the women there know how to prepare them.

I have been in Peru doing...

30 May 2024

Genebanks From Around the World Stand United as New Seeds are Added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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Genebanks From Around the World Stand United as New Seeds are Added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, 28 May 2024 – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault welcomes shipments from five new depositors as the world’s largest repository of crop diversity raises the number of samples in its care to...

28 May 2024

Carlos Ochoa: The Indiana Jones of the Potato World
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Carlos Ochoa: The Indiana Jones of the Potato World

In this installment of our Seed Heroes series, we remember the unique contributions of Peruvian scientist Carlos Ochoa, whose hazardous collection expeditions in search of wild potatoes paved the way for many of today’s improved...

24 May 2024

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