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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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Building a Stronger Genebank Network, One Connection at a Time
In a world in which growing food demand is about the only certainty, digital tools are helping genebanks conserve and share the crop diversity that underpins our global food security.
By streamlining operations and connecting...
9 May 2025
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From Broccoli to Pak Choy: Brassicas Need a Global Network
To some people, broccoli is like math: You’re pretty sure that you won’t enjoy it, so you assume that you need to sugar-coat it – or, rather, cheese-coat it – for it to become somewhat palatable.
But what if we were kinder to...
19 Jul 2023
African Genebanks Build a Community
Conserving crop diversity is not just about adventurous activities like trekking through the jungle on elephant-back to track down the “lost” wild relatives of beans or potatoes.
The day-to-day routine of running a genebank is...
12 Jul 2023
2022: A Year with Two Sides
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2022 has been a year with two different sides.
On the one hand, the world is ramping up its efforts in fighting climate change. With the world gradually opening up following the challenges of...
11 Jul 2023
A Conversation with Chocolate’s Noah
The origins of chocolate can be traced back to ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, who revered chocolate as the "Food of the Gods." They incorporated it into their sacred rituals and celebrated its medicinal properties.
Today,...
7 Jul 2023
Reflecting on 2022
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At the beginning of 2022, many of us expected this to be a year when life began to return to normal after the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. But while we have gradually begun to return to...
3 Jul 2023
Spicing Up Diets and Livelihoods with Peppers
What behaves like a chameleon, comes in 50 shades of red, green, orange, yellow and even purple, and gets sweeter with age?
It may sound like a creature from a fairy tale, but the real world of plants has an answer all of its...
20 Jun 2023
BOLDly Regenerating Crop Diversity in Nigeria
Reducing risks to genebanks in Nigeria and Benin is one of the objectives of the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) project.
When the lights went out during the launch ceremony of the BOLD...
20 Jun 2023
Five Recipes to Make in Celebration of Sustainable Gastronomy Day
On Sustainable Gastronomy Day, the Crop Trust has linked up with its partners from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to cook up a menu of dishes based on beans and millets.
Sustainable gastronomy takes into...
18 Jun 2023
Safeguarding Ethiopian Wheat and Other Centuries-old Landraces in Svalbard
Last week, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) deposited seeds of traditional landraces of durum wheat, wild lentil and other crops on the frozen shelves in the depths of the Svalbard...
13 Jun 2023
Strengthening the Inclusion of Marginalized Groups in Ex Situ Conservation of Crop Diversity
Farmers have selected, exchanged and conserved crop diversity for millennia, and continue to do so, because they know that their food security and livelihoods depend on it. Genebanks play an important supporting role to the...
12 Jun 2023
Greens from Asia for the World
In light of the second opening of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2023 and the World Vegetable Center’s deposit, which marks its 50th anniversary, we sat down to chat with Maarten van Zonneveld, genebank manager of the world’s...
8 Jun 2023
Securing the Foundation of Our Food Supply at -18° Celsius
The celebration of new deposits from 9 institutes, including international, regional and national genebanks, as well as smaller collection holders, will see the Global Svalbard Seed Vault's collection surpass 1.25 million seed...
6 Jun 2023