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Egypt Independent: Syria’s Crops Sheltered in Seed Vault

Egypt Independent: Syria’s Crops Sheltered in Seed Vault STOCKHOLM — Chickpeas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an…

Egypt

Egypt has a population of nearly 90 million inhabitants. The per capita food consumption is 3,160 calories a day and ranks within the top quarter in the world. With increasing demands and a…

Eggplant

If there were a contest for the most glamorous vegetable, and there certainly should be, eggplant would be a strong contender. There’s so much more to it than the deep, glossy black or rich…

Ecuador’s Model Genebank

Ecuador’s Model Genebank Ecuador may be small in size, but it’s big in biodiversity. With landscapes that stretch from the Amazon to the Andes and even include the Galápagos Islands, this South…

Ecuador

Ecuador is one of the world’s most environmentally diverse countries, with a population of over 16 million. Agriculture has traditionally employed a large proportion of the population. There is a…

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

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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

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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.