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Cowpea: How to Make a Hardy Crop Even Tougher The cowpea keeps millions of people fed every day—but with the climate crisis threatening production, scientists are finding ways to increase its yields…

Big, Dynamic, and Complicated: Celebrating International Day for Biological Diversity Luigi Guarino | Director of Science Today is International Day for Biological Diversity, and the theme this year…

Why an Equitable Food System Depends on Diversity Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director Banner photo: CIAT/Stephanie Malyon Many of us take eating three nutritious meals each day for granted. The…

Using Crop Diversity To Fight Hidden Hunger Taking stock on World Hunger Day, more than 820 million people around the world do not have enough to eat. The vast majority of these people live in…

Greenpass Puts Germplasm Distribution in the Fast Lane The crop diversity in CGIAR's international genebanks continues to be in great demand. That's music to the ears of genebank managers, who…

Rethinking Global Food Systems At the GLF Bonn 2020 digital conference on food in the time of crises, Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz gave an inspirational talk about the importance of…

A Sunflower Story Early this year, the Crop Trust’s very own Luis Salazar visited Argentina, where our Crop Wild Relatives Project pre-breeding partners from the National Agricultural Technology…

Celebrating Sustainable Gastronomy Day Tasty Local Insight from the GLF Bonn Digital Conference 2020 This article is part of a series on sustainable food produced in collaboration with the Global…

Seeds for Resilience: A Chat with Project Manager Nora Castañeda-Álvarez The Crop Trust’s Seeds for Resilience project is supporting genebanks in Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Ghana to improve…

A Haven of Diversity For International Day of the Tropics, we're taking a look at a genebank for pacific crops and trees. When we talk about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault being the tip of the…