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Eat Food? Choose Diversity!

… yield. “We need to pay farmers not just for what they produce, but how they produce it,” he argued in 2023. In this way, Pollan has helped shift the public conversation from food trends to food systems. He…

Germany Supports the Crop Trust to Safeguard and Use Crop Diversity Globally

… the changing environment and tough times ahead. The three-year project will run until the end of 2023 and includes EUR 4.5 million in funding.

New Global Assessment of Plant Genetic Resources Gets Underway

… in 2022, after which it will be presented to the Commission for endorsement and then publication in 2023. It is envisaged that the publication of the Third Report will provide the much-needed impetus for…

Food Forever: 2030 Strategic Plan

… the way to this goal, one sensible step at a time. The Crop Trust 2030 Strategic Plan, adopted in 2023, sets out the targets to be met by the end of the decade and provides a roadmap for achieving them. …

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Banking on African heritage

Seeds for Resilience is a five-year project supporting collections of key crops identified by partner genebanks in five sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. In

Cucurbits_Summary_v2.pdf

… summary of the Global conservation strategy for crops in the Cucurbitaceae family (Ebert et al., 2023) with some key metrics (Table 1) updated in 2024. Its aim is to support decision making by the…

GROW_Webinar_-_Stef_de_Haan_.pdf

… Source: Chirapaq Ñan Initiative Extensive Refinement for Peru (2021-2022) Source: Dawson et al. 2023 A B C D E F Dawson et al. 2023 A B Dawson et al. 2023 C Started with 9 and now has 11…

Landmark Partnership Guarantees Long-term Support For Globally Important Collections of Beans and Forages

… Partnership Guarantees Long-term Support For Globally Important Collections of Beans and Forages 18 April 2023, Cali, Colombia – A new Long-term Partnership Agreement (LPA) signed today between the Crop Trust and…

Sudan’s National Genebank Begins Rebuilding as Famine Threatens

… wild relatives of sorghum, pearl millet, sesame and eggplant. But all that changed in December 2023. An armed rebel faction drove government forces out of Wad Medani and APGRC workers fled to safer…

Bonn University Botanic Gardens Showcase the Value of Conservation

… bank. It conserves a wide range of species, from pepper to resilient niche crops like amaranth. In 2023, Bonn University Botanic Gardens deposited seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, contributing to the…

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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.