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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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Future Banana Health May Depend on Diversity From Farmers’ Fields
As one of the world’s most widely produced and consumed fruits and staple foods, bananas (including plantain) are of vital importance.
But pests and diseases, such as the Tropical Race 4 fungal infection, and climate change, have...
3 Aug 2021
3 Aug 2021
Genebank Resilience Tested as Pandemic Enters Second Year
In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, and countries around the world instituted lockdowns and other measures to stem soaring infection rates.
While governments highlighted the...
28 Apr 2021
28 Apr 2021
Wild Bananas from Papua New Guinea Boost Food Security for All
Bananas come in a huge array of different types, some say perhaps a thousand or more distinct cultivated varieties, but there’s only one kind found in most grocery stores, the so-called Cavendish. Bananas are produced by growing...
28 Jan 2021
28 Jan 2021
Wild About Bananas
Hunting for Drought Tolerance in Papua New Guinea
Bananas were first domesticated in Southeast Asia, sometime between 5,000 and 8,000 BCE. They have since spread widely around the world. India alone consumes a quarter of the...
12 Nov 2019
Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops
Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food.
Bonn, Germany and Washington, DC (3 DECEMBER 2019)—As the world grapples with the challenge of sustainably...
12 Mar 2019
A Tale of Two Bananas
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
My friend Ali Lawati is upset with me. He works on plant genetic resources conservation in Oman, and we’ve known each other for over twenty years, ever since we tried to collect...
19 Jul 2016
19 Jul 2016
Guest Post: Nourishing Collaborations
A social anthropologist tells us about her recent experiences amidst a large and global community working towards conserving and using plant genetic resources for food security and adaptation to climate change.
Imagine...
8 Dec 2015
8 Dec 2015