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A New Decade for Biodiversity Protection The new year is upon us, ushering in an updated Global Biodiversity Framework for the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), covering the period 2021 to…

Let’s Meet Up for Tea A global consortium on tea genetic resources will benefit tea-growing countries around the world, according to Professor Liang Chen, curator of the world’s largest collection of…

Crop Science Special Issue Shows Why Crops Need to Get Wild When the Growing Gets Tough, the Tough Get Pre-breeding Much like dogs have wolves, our familiar crops have undomesticated relatives…

Wild Bananas from Papua New Guinea Boost Food Security for All Bananas come in a huge array of different types, some say perhaps a thousand or more distinct cultivated varieties, but there’s only one…

Tell Us What You Think Be honest—what do you think of the Crop Trust website? Help us improve your future digital experience with the Crop Trust and its affiliate projects and platforms by…

Battling Biotic Stress in Farmers' Fields Crops are often threatened by a range of unfriendly organisms, including various kinds of bacteria, fungi, insects and weeds. These plant predators hamper…

16 Women Scientists Securing the Future of our Food In honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Crop Trust is highlighting some of our past interviews with talented women who…

A Sweet Deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault When the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opens this week, for the first time in 2021, the seeds of something really sweet will be among those…

Strawberry Seeds Deposited at the First Svalbard Global Seed Vault Opening of 2021 FAO’s International Year of Fruits and Vegetables is being recognized all around the globe—including at the Svalbard…

Stay-Green Sorghum to the Rescue The arid-zone grain sorghum can be made even more tolerant of drought, new research shows. Drought tolerance in sorghum—the world’s fifth most important cereal…