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Supercharging Nutrition with Wild Chickpea Relatives Chickpea is an excellent source of dietary fiber, with calcium and magnesium to boot, but new research shows we can do even more with the popular…

A Wild Way to Boost Wheat Yields In the face of climate change, improving wheat varieties is essential to maintain yields—and genebanks are at the center of the process, a new study shows. Published…

Fast-Tracking Food Security Using Space Science Plant breeders developing new crop varieties are finding success after shifting their gaze from the fields to the stars. Scientists at the…

A Window of Opportunity for a Sustainable Future Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director It is often said that in the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity. These insightful words apply to the…

Genebank Resilience Tested as Pandemic Enters Second Year In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, and countries around the world instituted lockdowns…

Diverse Food is the Real Low-Cost Food Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director When the first Model T rolled off his assembly line, Henry Ford revolutionized the economy. Industrial mass production…

Crop Trust 2020 Annual Report We are pleased to share the achievements that we and our partners have achieved during the last year in our 2020 Annual Report. Read the Annual Report

More than 30,000 Seed Samples from Seven Genebanks Secured in Svalbard Global Seed Vault A total of 85 boxes with thousands of seed samples will be deposited this week in the Svalbard Global Seed…

Germany Supports the Crop Trust to Safeguard and Use Crop Diversity Globally SEE PRESS RELEASE A Q&A with Crop Trust Executive Director, Stefan Schmitz A new project, funded by the German…

Germinate: Crop Data at Your Fingertips Until all too recently, sharing information on genetic resources was a hugely inefficient process that made collaboration, at times, impossible. The solution…