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Power of Diversity Funding Facility Stakeholders Choose their Opportunity Crops
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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

New Climate-Resilient Alfalfa Gives Hope to Drought-Stricken Farmers in Kazakhstan
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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

Long-Term Funding Supports AfricaRice Genebank and the Future of Rice Diversity
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Long-Term Funding Supports AfricaRice Genebank and the Future of Rice Diversity

Partnership ensures farmers and breeders have lasting access to the crop’s diversity.

Bonn, Germany, 29 August 2025 – Over 35 million smallholder rice farmers across Africa stand to benefit from the agreement signed last month...

29 Aug 2025

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Call for Action: Secure the Financing of Genebanks to Strengthen Resilient, Productive, Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems

SEVILLE, SPAIN, 03 July 2025  – The UN Conference on Finance for Development in Seville 2025 brings governments, international financial institutions and development actors together at a critical moment. It aims to align financial...

3 Jul 2025

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New Drought-tolerant Durum Wheat Variety Proves Its Worth in Morocco

As seed multiplication efforts for the durum wheat variety Jawahir continue, farmers in drought-stricken regions of Morocco get a first taste of its potential.

BONN, GERMANY, 17 June 2025 – “We prefer not to plant. It’s too dry,”...

17 Jun 2025

Heritage and Health Take Center Stage at the Latest Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit
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Heritage and Health Take Center Stage at the Latest Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit

As genebanks around the world deposit seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week, the focus is on how crop diversity reflects cultural heritage.

LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY, 3 June 2025 – Fourteen genebanks will deposit...

3 Jun 2025

Global leaders and partners gathered in Bonn on May 12-13 for the first Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security meeting, uniting efforts against rising hunger. Photo: Petra Pajdakovic/Crop Trust
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Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security Brings Together International Stakeholders to Address Global Hunger

BONN, GERMANY, May 14, 2025 – On May 12-13, global leaders and experts convened in Bonn, Germany, for the first stakeholder meeting of the Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security.

With an estimated 735 million people...

14 May 2025

Giving Crops an Opportunity: Crop Trust Launches the Power of Diversity Funding Facility
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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

Swiss-Flavoured Food Forever Experience Puts Crop Diversity in the Spotlight at the World Economic Forum 2025
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Swiss-Flavoured Food Forever Experience Puts Crop Diversity in the Spotlight at the World Economic Forum 2025

Davos, Switzerland, 23 January 2025 – The World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting in Davos was the venue of the first Food Forever Experience of the year, underscoring the importance of the conservation and use of crop diversity for...

23 Jan 2025

Ukraine Adopts Strategy to Save Crop Diversity
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Ukraine Adopts Strategy to Save Crop Diversity

Ukraine, often referred to as one of the world’s main breadbaskets, is home to a wide variety of agricultural plants. But since the escalation of the war in 2022, its national genebank system, which conserves thousands of unique...

14 Nov 2024

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault Historic Deposit Bolsters Food Security Amid Crises

LONGYEARBYEN, SVALBARD, October 23, 2024 - The Svalbard Global Seed Vault received yesterday a deposit of more than 30,000 new seed samples from 23 depositors across 21 countries, including seven international genebanks. This...

23 Oct 2024

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