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Together for the Future of Food: Crop Diversity Day 2025

… Chair Catherine Bertini added a systems-wide perspective, saying: “We started this series of events in 2023 to listen – because Crop Diversity Day is a learning experience, but also a celebration of hope…

A highlight of Crop Diversity Day 2025 was the first deposit into CIP’s new cryopreservation facility – the Cryo Vault – the first of its kind in South America. Photo: Andres Carvajal/IISD Earth Negotiation Bulletin

Ecuador’s Model Genebank

… breeders developed INIAP-Excelencia from a cross between two traditional quinoa varieties. Released in 2023, it is high yielding with low saponin content, which means it’s easier to process, less bitter and more…

Best of 2022: Celebrating Crop Diversity

… containing 20,443 samples within, bringing the Seed Vault’s total count to 1,145,862 samples. February 2023 will mark the 15-year anniversary of this iconic site. In Photos: What It Takes to Operate a National…

Bart Panis: Cryobank Scientist With a Marathon Vision for the Future of Bananas

… for conservation of banana genetic resources of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT 2023-present: Banana genebank manager for Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT at ITC in Leuven

Communique

… Final Communique Summary of the Co-Chairs 14 November 2023, Französischer Dom, Berlin The Global Crop Diversity Summit brought together key stakeholders from the global Plant Genetic Resources for Food and…

Laying the foundations for better grasspea and finger millet

In 2022, the “Safeguarding crop diversity for food security: Pre-breeding complemented with Innovative Finance” Project entered its fourth and final year.

Close-up of man holding bean plant flower with forceps

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… examine the profitability along the chosen orphan crop value chains. The project started in June 2023 and will run until July 2026. 🔗 Visit Website CROPeth – Climate-Resilient Orphan crops Project The…

15 Years of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

15 Years of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: New deposit from 20 genebanks and a new virtual tour to celebrate the remote Arctic seed store

New seeds are being deposited at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

The Women’s Committee of Cotacachi: Guardians of the Chakras

… Our Culture, Our Future At the heart of the Women’s Committee's work is the Andean Chakra, which in 2023 was recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN as a Globally Important Agricultural…

From War Zones to Typhoon-Prone Shores, Nations Rally to Protect Their Crops, Make Landmark Deposits to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

… the sixth deposit from Sudan (the first was in 2019), which has been embroiled in a civil war since 2023. The Sudanese national genebank, located in the city of Wad Medani, had conserved more than 17,000…

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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.