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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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Colombia Steps Up for Crop Diversity: Inside AGROSAVIA’s Work with the Power of Diversity Funding Facility
Potato, cassava, guava, passionfruit and peach palm are as Colombian as cumbia, Betty la Fea and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism. These crops are found in markets, kitchens and backyard gardens across the country,...
13 Apr 2026
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Celebrating Sustainable Gastronomy Day
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...
17 Jun 2020
17 Jun 2020
Using Crop Diversity To Fight Hidden Hunger
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...
27 May 2020
27 May 2020
Hidden Opportunities in the Unique Produce Panic Shoppers Leave Behind
In the whirlwind of the last several months, the global pandemic COVID-19 has altered the way many of us run our lives as we trade trousers for sweatpants, staff meetings for video conferences guest-starring our pets. And like...
7 Apr 2020
7 Apr 2020
Arctic Call to Action on Food Security and Climate Change
25 February 2020 | Svalbard, Norway
Originally posted here.
UN Secretary-General Mr Antonio Guterres has called for a decade of action and delivery to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. With just 10 years...
4 Mar 2020
4 Mar 2020
The President of Ghana Speaks at the Seed Summit
On 25 February 2020, the largest deposit since the Seed Vault's opening in 2008 (in terms of the number of institutions to send seeds at one time) took place in Svalbard as representative from over 30 different genebanks came to...
4 Mar 2020
4 Mar 2020
Finish Your Saltwater Greens!
Come on, sir; here’s the place: stand still. How fearful
And dizzy ’tis, to cast one’s eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down
Hangs one that gathers samphire,...
17 Dec 2019
17 Dec 2019
In Vietnam: Farmers Evaluate Wild Rice-derived Lines
We recently visited our Crop Wild Relatives partners at the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute, Can Tho University, in Vietnam. Professor Huynh Quang Tin is leading a participatory plant breeding (PPB) initiative where 13...
31 Jul 2019
31 Jul 2019
David Ellis: Finding the Balance Between Manager and Scientist
Recipient of the inaugural Crop Trust Legacy Award David Ellis was once asked how to prepare for a career as a genebank scientist. “There’s no fricking way,” he responded. “You not only have to be well grounded in science but you...
8 May 2019
A Homecoming for Rice
AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Côte d’Ivoire, more than a decade after the center re-located to Benin during a civil war. But first, all its rice had to be sent back to Cote d’Ivoire after being...
12 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019
Daniel Debouck: The Man Who Knows His Beans
The world’s leading expert on the diversity of beans has collected 4,000 accessions in 38 expeditions through 11 countries and has discovered 16 new species.
Daniel Debouck began his career with a bit of a quandary. It was 1977...
21 Jun 2018
The Breeding Advantage
Tapping into genetic diversity for food security in a 4 degrees warmer world
Lili Szilagyi, CCAFS and Cierra Martin, Crop Trust
While efforts are underway to mitigate emissions and adapt to a 2°C increase, it's important to...
28 Nov 2017
28 Nov 2017