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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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Crop Diversity Day Rabat 2024

Climate and Biodiversity: Towards Resilient Food Systems in the MENA Region

Brewing a Future: Crop Trust and Germany Safeguard Costa Rica's Coffee Heritage

… is resilient to climate change. When this valuable coffee diversity faced funding challenges in 2023, the Crop Trust and Germany stepped up and provided crucial support. In a collaborative effort to…

GCCS_metrics_methods.pdf

… varietal releases. Ex situ collections data retrieved in October 2024 and reporting information from 2023 or previous country level reports, with data for regeneration status reporting the period 2012 to 2014…

Breathing New Life into Global Crop Conservation Strategies

The Crop Trust worked with experts from around the world to develop and update strategies that will guide global efforts for the conservation of key crops.

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Global Strategy for the Conservation and Use of Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Genetic Resources

… genebanks at the global level. The interactive bubble map below shows the combined data retrieved in 2023 from Genesys and WIEW. In terms of the number of accessions, the diversity of the collections…

Taking Stock of 2022

… your friends and family. Sign up for the Dish. The Year Ahead Looking forward to the coming year, 2023 marks the International Year of Millets, which was launched this month at the headquarters of the Food…

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Millets: Use Them or Lose Them

…Millets: Use Them or Lose Them 2023 marks the International Year of Millets – hardy, nutritious crops that are in decline. A recently published global conservation strategy maps out how to keep millets on our…

Global Strategy for the Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources of Selected Millets

… Roth. ex. Roem & Schult.) and kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum (L.)). was published in 2023 (Global Crop Diversity Trust 2023, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7544810). This document, developed with the input…

A BOLD Attempt to Adapt Barley to the Most Remote Regions of Tunisia

… care for the whole family.” Over the last decade, Tunisia has endured a series of severe droughts. In 2023, conditions were so extreme that INRAT lost nearly all of its barley breeding field trials. “In 2024,…

A guiding light for global crop conservation

Global Crop Conservation Strategies guide global conservation of genetic resources for key crops. In 2022, five new strategies and two updated strategies were completed and three others were in 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.