The Crop Trust is a non-profit international organization dedicated to conserving crop diversity and making it available for use globally, forever, for the benefit of everyone.

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.

We seek professionals with a passion for global food security and a strong drive to contribute to our mission of conserving crop diversity for future generations.

Search

Please use this search facility to search all content found within the website:

1687 results:

Order by:
Date
Title

Economic Benefits of Crop Diversity

Economic Benefits of Crop Diversity Crop diversity is the raw material for the development of new and improved varieties, which provide a range of important benefits to farmers and…

Cassava plantlets in the CIAT genebank in Cali. Barcoded labels link each plantlet to an accession database with information on the variety, landrace or wild relative and where it was collected. Some types have long since vanished from fields, but these tiny offspring keep the diversity alive. Any one of them can be grown into a full-sized crop, which could hold the key to beating a virus in Vietnam or grasshoppers in Ghana.

Eat Food? Choose Diversity!

Eat Food? Choose Diversity! Michael Pollan’s best-selling books and films raise awareness about where food in Western diets comes from, and why eating “real” food from diverse crops is so…

Early Flowering African Rice Beats the Heat

subheader

Field workers harvest samples of African rice for research and conservation. Photo: Neil Palmer/Crop Trust

Durum Wheat: The Best Kept Secret in Katie Parla’s Pasta

Durum Wheat: The Best Kept Secret in Katie Parla’s Pasta Durum wheat is the behind-the-scenes star of the culinary world. Sure, it's used in all sorts of dishes globally, from North African couscous…

Durum Wheat: a Story of Community

Durum Wheat Pre-Breeding for Food Security

Dryland Crops in Africa and Asia Get a Boost From Crop Trust and Germany

Dryland Crops in Africa and Asia Get a Boost From Crop Trust and Germany Agriculture in drought-prone regions took a major step forward when the Crop Trust and Germany’s federal government provided…

A farmer from India holds a part of her pearl millet harvest. Credit: ICRISAT

Drawing lessons from crop diversity data for future food security

Drawing lessons from crop diversity data for future food security Luigi Guarino, Director of Science at the Crop Trust joined Álvaro Toledo, Deputy Secretary of the International Plant Treaty for an…

Dr. Lava Kumar

Dr. Lava Kumar is the Head of the Germplasm Health and Virology and Diagnostics at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria. He has over 25 years…

Dr. Heike Baumüller

Heike has spent over 20 years advancing research and policies that address global food security challenges. In her current role at the Crop Trust, she supports the Executive Director in…

Search results 1081 to 1090 of 1687

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.