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Forages: Key to Climate-resilient Livestock Systems More than a billion smallholders depend on their livestock for food and livelihoods, and their livestock depend on a year-round supply of

Tracing High-iron Beans to the Genebank A Genebank Platform Impact Fellow looks at the journey of beans from the genebank to farmers’ fields. Stefania Sellitti may not be able to trace her family

Securing East Africa’s Cassava IITA is eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so it can safely be transported from East Africa to Nigeria. Morag Ferguson is thrilled with the results of a

Maruti – The Pigeonpea Savior A direct release from the ICRISAT genebank helped revitalize the pigeonpea industry in Karnataka, India. Sharanappa Pujari’s face started to glow when I asked him how

Best of 2022: Celebrating Crop Diversity The importance of our planet's biodiversity – and its crop diversity – has never been more clear. This past year has shown time and again the

Cracking the Problem of Tree Seeds World Agroforestry’s (ICRAF) genebank hosts the world’s largest holdings of agroforestry tree genetic resources but encounters several unique challenges in getting

Saving Every Grain of Rice: A Q&A with Jerry Tjoe Awie Jerry Tjoe Awie is a rice breeder. The only one in Suriname, a small country on the northeastern coast of South America. Jerry is also the

Keeping Malan Alive in Central Kalimantan Papa Dewi looked out at fields covered with a kaleidoscope of crops: rice, cowpea, eggplant, maize, and more. “This is our way of life,” said the Dayak

Unlocking Hidden Gems: a BOLD Journey to Resilient and Diverse Crops What do alfalfa, barley, durum wheat, finger millet, grasspea, potato, and rice have in common? They’re all included in the Crop