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Food Prices and Security Hit by ‘Heatflation’ as Summer Heat Wave Ravages Crops Worldwide

Food Prices and Security Hit by ‘Heatflation’ as Summer Heat Wave Ravages Crops Worldwide Record-breaking heat waves across the globe are destroying crops, pushing up food prices and putting the…

Food Forever: 2030 Strategic Plan

Food Forever: 2030 Strategic Plan The Crop Trust has a clear vision: a world in which crop diversity is permanently conserved and made available in support of sustainable, resilient and healthy…

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Food Forever Initiative

The Food Forever Initiative was a campaign to support Target 2.5 of the UN SDGs by raising awareness around crop and livestock diversity and its importance to a sustainable food future.

Food Forever Experiences

Event Series Biodiversity for Resilience By working with innovative chefs to cook up delicious dishes using lesser known ingredients, we aim to plant the seed for a more diverse,…

Food For a Curious Mind: Damaris Odeny on a Career in Agricultural Science

Food For a Curious Mind: Damaris Odeny on a Career in Agricultural Science This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with…

Fonio: Small Grain, Big Opportunity

Flourishing in her Field

Flourishing in her Field Eyerusalem Arusi Morka shows what can be achieved when women have the opportunity to develop their talents. In honor of International Women’s Day, which celebrates the…

Women working at the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute clearing a regeneration plot of fenugreek. The Ethiopian genebank is part of the Seeds4Resilience Project. Photo: Nora Castaneda-Alvarez/Crop Trust

Five Ways Crop Diversity Delivered in 2025

Five Ways Crop Diversity Delivered in 2025 At the Crop Trust, we invest in crop diversity. But what does that mean, exactly? In 2025, it meant securing thousands of seed samples for the future,…

Five Ways Africa’s Opportunity Crops Can Shape the Future of Food

Five Ways Africa’s Opportunity Crops Can Shape the Future of Food Africa’s population is set to double by 2050, with cities absorbing most of that growth. At the same time, diets are changing,…

Five Standout Messages from “Into the Wild” at GLF Climate

Five Standout Messages from “Into the Wild” at GLF Climate Over the past decade, withering heat waves, immense storms and extreme droughts have threatened the production of food crops around the…

In Kazakhstan, we saw 'Medicago falcata' everywhere, a yellow-flowered wild relative of alfalfa that is drought and cold tolerant. It is one of the many alfalfa Crop Wild Relatives being crossed with its domesticated counterpart, 'M. sativa', by our pre-breeding partners in China (GRI / CAAS), Chile (Inia Chile), Australia (SARDI) and, of course, Kazakhstan (KSRIAPG).

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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.