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Potatoes originate in the Andes where around 180 wild potato species can still be found. It’s estimated that potatoes were domesticated about 7,000 years ago – slowly transforming the gnarly,…

In Southeast Asia, where the most widely grown types were first domesticated, its reign is undisputed. It’s the primary food, fundamental to millions of livelihoods and deeply rooted in every…

A member of the Cucurbita genus, the ‘squash’ comes from the New England aboriginal word ‘askutasquash’, which means vegetables…

Juan Arredondo was born in New Jersey, USA, and grew up in Colombia. He relocated to the United States to pursue undergraduate and graduate studies in organic chemistry. While working as a research…

Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development is a groundbreaking 10-year project to combat the climate crisis.

The project is supporting the Crop Trust in its institutional development and strategic repositioning.

Our audience is as diverse as the crop diversity we help safeguard. It includes scientists from the entire crop diversity value chain from conservation to use. It also includes governments and…

A global strategy for the conservation and use of citrus genetic resources was published in 2023 (Global Crop Diversity Trust 2023, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7757226). This document, developed with the…

Global strategy for the ex situ conservation of temperate forages was published in 2021 (Global Crop Diversity Trust 2021). This document, developed with the input of a large number of experts,…

The objective of the update of the 2007 global strategy for sorghum was to consider changes in the global context in terms of the security of conservation and enhanced use of ex situ…