The Crop Trust is a non-profit international organization dedicated to conserving crop diversity and making it available for use globally, forever, for the benefit of everyone.

We work with donors and partners to lead global projects that protect crop diversity, conserve crop wild relatives and develop technology to make this diversity accessible worldwide.

We seek professionals with a passion for global food security and a strong drive to contribute to our mission of conserving crop diversity for future generations.

Search

Please use this search facility to search all content found within the website:

1788 results:

Order by:
Date
Title

A Sunflower Story

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

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…

Close-up of male hands cooking molecular dish. Dark background. Molecular cuisine

Seeds for Resilience: A Chat with Project Manager Nora Castañeda-Álvarez

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

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…

One Thing Underpins the Food System We Need

One Thing Underpins the Food System We Need Luigi Guarino | Director of Science Another day, another report telling us that the food system must change. The latest is from the U.N. Committee on World…

Expanding and Improving Genesys

Expanding and Improving Genesys Genesys, the online portal for information on genebank samples, is constantly evolving. First launched in 2008, it now contains data on more than four million…

Three big enhancements to Genesys now go beyond such basic passport data: the portal now allows genebanks to publish phenotypic datasets, subsets of accessions, and images.

Patagonian Farmers Welcome Climate-Resistant Alfalfa

Patagonian Farmers Welcome Climate-Resistant Alfalfa This slideshow presents a brief, but wide-ranging, look at the importance of alfalfa in Chile’s Magallanes region. More specifically, it…

Alfalfa, the “queen of the forages”, is one of the most important of livestock feeds. It has excellent nutritional value, and today it is grown in more than 80 countries, including Chile, where our Crop Wild Relatives partners INIA are evaluating plants that have been derived by crossing cultivated alfalfa varieties with wild relatives with the aim to develop types that are adapted to the drought and the cold of this bleak but beautiful austral landscape. Photo: LS Salazar/Crop Trust

How To Feed a Growing Global Population in the Midst of a Climate Crisis

How To Feed a Growing Global Population in the Midst of a Climate Crisis By Stefan Schmitz, Executive Director of Crop Trust and Tony Simons, Director General of World…

Small scale farms and community groups line the road from Samfya to Mansa and focus on Cassava production for local consumption and to a lesser extent starch export.

Seed Summit Highlights Need for Genetic Diversity

Seed Summit Highlights Need for Genetic Diversity A recent summit entitled Genetic diversity for more resilient food systems looked at the urgent need of safeguarding crop diversity due to the impact…

Building Capacity in Collecting and Conserving Crop Wild Relatives

Building Capacity in Collecting and Conserving Crop Wild Relatives How do you go about finding and collecting seeds from a scraggly looking crop wild relative in a prairie or a tropical forest, when…

“Genetic resources safeguarded in a genebank are useful only if they are accompanied by data that is easy to access and can be trusted,” says Juan Carlos Alarcón, the GRIN-Global Frontrunner, who is pictured here far right with representatives from (L to R) Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay. “The management of information is indispensable to safeguard the diversity of our crops. And, more importantly, to make it available to potential users.”

Search results 1381 to 1390 of 1788

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.