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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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Ensuring the Camel of Crops Keeps Giving
The Crop Trust facilitated the update of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of sorghum and its wild relatives.
The “camel of crops” is a true physiological marvel. It’s one of our toughest cereals and can survive in...
18 May 2023
Building a Toolbox of Sorghum Diversity
The wild, weedy relatives of our cultivated crops display all kinds of useful traits their domesticated cousins lack – traits that could make our agriculture more resilient to future challenges.
But it takes a lot of time and...
17 Feb 2023
Farmers in Mali Go Wild for Sorghum
Moïse Mounkoro held three cards in his hand – one red, one yellow and one white. He felt like he was the football umpire in his local village of Sokoro in east central Mali.
He pulled out a red card, not to eject a player from...
30 Jan 2023
Kenyan Farmers Welcome “Exotic” Sorghum
ICSWC 14RS 00020-3-47-1:201704 may be a mouthful, but to Kenyan farmers it could spell food security and better livelihood.
24 Jan 2023
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
Stay-Green Sorghum to the Rescue
The arid-zone grain sorghum can be made even more tolerant of drought, new research shows.
Drought tolerance in sorghum—the world’s fifth most important cereal crop—is measured in a number of different ways, including by looking...
23 Feb 2021
23 Feb 2021