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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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Power of Diversity Funding Facility Stakeholders Choose their Opportunity Crops
As the world marks World Food Day on 16 October, the Crop Trust’s Power of Diversity Funding Facility highlights the results of national consultations with stakeholders to identify opportunity crops that boost nutrition,...
14 Oct 2025
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New Climate-Resilient Alfalfa Gives Hope to Drought-Stricken Farmers in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan releases its first drought- and heat-tolerant variety of alfalfa, one of the world’s most important feed crops. Developed thanks to wild relatives seeds stored in local and global genebanks, the new variety...
9 Oct 2025
The Seeds That Feed Us And the Future They Hold
World Environment Day is a powerful reminder that conserving biodiversity is essential not just for the health of our planet, but also for something closer to home – our food. The resilience of our food systems, the nutrition in...
5 Jun 2025
The Wow Potatoes of Kenya: Fighting Late Blight with Farmer-Approved, Disease-Resistant Spuds
Fighting Late Blight with Farmer-Approved, Disease-Resistant Spuds
30 May 2025
Ugandan Farmers Teach Scientists to Rethink Seed Systems
Training Course in Uganda Taps Community Knowledge of Seed Systems
26 May 2025
Bonn University Botanic Gardens Showcase the Value of Conservation
Botanical gardens bring us together. They are peaceful places in busy urban areas where people can meet, relax, connect with nature, and learn something. But they also bring lots of different plants together, and thus play a vital...
22 May 2025
Saving Sweetpotato Diversity: How Technology is Boosting Food Security in Drought-Affected Africa
Sweetpotato plays a crucial role in combating food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa. However, its genetic diversity is under threat from climate change, pests, and diseases, which could have dire consequences for millions of...
2 Oct 2024
The Crop Trust Aims High With 2030 Strategy Plan for Genebanks
“You’ve got to think about doing big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
The words of U.S. futurist writer Alvin Toffler in the 1970s are sometimes cited in business...
9 Nov 2023
Ensuring Enough Eggplant for Everyone
The Crop Trust facilitated the development of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of eggplant and its wild relatives to help ensure food and nutrition security.
If there was a contest for the most glamorous vegetable,...
1 Feb 2023
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
Sefra Alexandra on Listening to the Stories Within Seeds
This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with inspiring, talented female scientists whose work involves conserving crop diversity.
If you have the...
4 Mar 2022