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We work with donors and partners to lead global projects that protect crop diversity, conserve crop wild relatives and develop technology to make this diversity accessible worldwide.

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Ehsan Dulloo: Mauritian Champion of Biodiversity Who Set Standards for Genebanks

… Trust’s Seed Heroes for his contribution to the development of…

Speakers

… document and preserve the continent’s culinary heritage. She…

Forward and Upward: Spirit of our GOAL Workshop in Latin America

… between quality control and quality…

A Homecoming for Rice

… any edible grains. By contrast, the breakthrough NERICA…

Marie-Noelle Ndjiondjop with packets of rice samples in the AfricaRice genebank in Mbe. Photo: Neil Palmer/Crop Trust

Partnerships and Organizational News

The Crop Trust made a number of important strides in its partnerships and outreach in 2021. This included signing a memorandum of understanding with the World Vegetable Center, launching an Emergency

Seed Banks: A Last Line of Defense Against the Erosion of Agricultural Biodiversity

… biodiversity and the continued availability of…

Second International Agrobiodiversity Congress

… of Bonn, Germany, on "The contribution of ICRISAT genebank…

A farmer tends to rice paddies at the Maname experimental farm in Tolima, where different varieties of exotic rice destined for Colombian restaurants are tested under local conditions. Over 90% of rice fields in the country are planted with modern varieties, usually bred with a very mixed ancestry from other regions of the world. Resistance to the destructive Latin American virus hoja blanca, for example, has been found in a variety from Taiwan and a few African lines.

Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 1

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A chill solution for tomorrow’s sweetpotatoes

A new project is preserving sweetpotato landraces from Madagascar and Zambia, cleaning them of diseases so they can yield better, and putting them back into the hands of farmers.

A chill solution for tomorrow’s sweetpotatoes

A new project is preserving sweetpotato landraces from Madagascar and Zambia, cleaning them of diseases so they can yield better, and putting them back into the hands of farmers.

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The Crop Diversity Digest

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.