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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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Giving Crops an Opportunity: Crop Trust Launches the Power of Diversity Funding Facility
Bonn, Germany, 19 March 2025 – In line with its mission to ensure the long-term conservation and availability of all crop diversity, the Crop Trust has launched the Power of Diversity Funding Facility (PDFF). This transformative...
19 Mar 2025
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Chill Solution for Meeting Future Demand of Sweetpotato
From Lima to Lusaka, open the menu of one of the fancier burger joints and you may well find fries made from sweetpotatoes rather than the more common, blander sort of tuber. The value chain that ensures that this delicious snack...
31 Mar 2023
Nuts About Peanuts
The peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), also known as groundnut, is native to South America but is now grown throughout the tropics and subtropics. There, this delicious legume is a subsistence crop for many, as well as an important...
16 Feb 2023
Best of 2022: Celebrating Crop Diversity
The importance of our planet's biodiversity – and its crop diversity – has never been more clear.
This past year has shown time and again the urgency of both conserving crop diversity and using it to develop climate-resilient...
21 Dec 2022
Three Key Takeaways from Food Forever: Climate-proofing our Food For Future Generations
Crop diversity – without which we cannot adapt to the climate crisis, improve livelihoods and feed everyone adequately – was highlighted at the recent Global Landscapes Forum’s (GLF) Climate event. What can we do to protect it?
R...
6 Dec 2022
Key Messages from Crop Diversity Day 2022
1. Global crop diversity is a prerequisite for future food and nutrition security, enabling us to adapt agriculture to the climate crisis, improve livelihoods and feed everyone adequately
“Diversity in the gene pools of crops,...
7 Oct 2022
Seeds: ‘Low-hanging Fruit’ for Food Security
The Crop Trust highlighted the role of seeds in providing actionable solutions to the challenges facing the world’s food systems at a curtain-raising event held in Bonn, Germany, on 27 September.
Crop Diversity Day kicked off...
7 Oct 2022
Climate Proofing the Carrot: Where Flavor Meets Stress Tolerance
Carrots are tasty, versatile, and – while your tomatoes and cauliflowers go all squishy – easy to store for a long time. Most importantly, carrots are packed with micronutrients, especially the precursor of vitamin A.
But carrots...
30 Aug 2022
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In Photos: What It Takes to Operate a National Genebank
The National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC) in Zambia is one of five national genebanks in Africa the Crop Trust is working with through its Seeds for Resilience (SFR) Project. This five-year project supports national...
19 Aug 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
Crop Trust Annual Report Released: A Look Back at a Year of Change
The Crop Trust's 2021 annual report is now available. In his letter, Executive Director Stefan Schmitz reflects on a year of change and some of the key achievements and milestones the organization reached.
Read the full annual...
6 Jun 2022
"Our Seeds Could Start the Next Green Revolution"
Q&A with Athanasios Tsivelikas, manager of the ICARDA Morocco genebank.
23 May 2022
Adaptation Is Key to Survival: The 2022 IPCC Report
By Stefan Schmitz – Executive Director
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is a sobering reminder that the window to securing a livable future is closing rapidly.
As many as 3.6 billion people –...
10 Mar 2022