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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.

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How CGIAR is Feeding Our Future

How CGIAR is Feeding Our Future "What’s for dinner? It’s a question asked every day in homes around the world. No other organization has done as much to ensure families—especially the…

Rice fields on terraced of Mu Cang Chai, YenBai, Rice fields prepare the harvest at Northwest Vietnam.Vietnam landscapes.

How Fiery Desert Chilis Can Protect Us from Climate Change

How Fiery Desert Chilis Can Protect Us from Climate Change A landscape of thorny agaves, cacti, mesquite trees, and rock is not the first place one might imagine searching for the future of food. How…

How to Save Coffee From Climate Change

How to Save Coffee From Climate Change Climate change demands a food revolution. Faced with heat, drought, pests and diseases, the crops we eat every day could become relics in a generation or less,…

The Chef Keeping Appalachian Food for Appalachians

The Chef Keeping Appalachian Food for Appalachians Emily Payne | Food Tank “Comfort food is for cowards, that ain’t what we do here,” Chef Marion Ohlinger tells Food Tank. A 12th-generation West…

From Coffee to Cosmetics

From Coffee to Cosmetics Companies are Looking for Ways to Protect the Plants Their Products are Made From The number of plant species in the world is declining, and climate change is poised to reck…

22 People & Organizations Working to Preserve Appalachia's Biodiversity

22 People & Organizations Working to Preserve Appalachia's Biodiversity This fall, Food Tank and the Crop Trust traveled throughout Appalachia to highlight and celebrate its unique food cultures and…

Meet the Chef Serving up Pork Schmaltz in Appalachia

Meet the Chef Serving up Pork Schmaltz in Appalachia Emily Payne | Food Tank “California has nothing on us,” Chef Ian Boden, Owner of The Shack in Staunton, Virginia, tells Food Tank.…

How Peru's Potato Museum Could Stave Off World Food Crisis

How Peru's Potato Museum Could Stave Off World Food Crisis Dan Collyns | The Guardian With a climate changing faster than most crops can adapt and food security under threat around the world,…

A Little Wild in Our Rice

A Little Wild in Our Rice Scientists are collaborating with farmers in Vietnam in a new project which is striving to develop improved varieties of rice which can withstand the challenges of climate…

Almost two-thirds of the world’s population depend on rice as part of their daily sustenance. In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, rice is harvested two or three times a year, and 80% of the 17 million people who live there are engaged in rice cultivation. During a recent Crop Wild Relatives visit, Crop Trust, IRRI and NMBU representatives consumed it steamed, puffed, in flakes, as noodles, as wine, to mention just a few of the ways the Vietnamese enjoy this staple crop. Photo: L.M. Salazar

Preserving Appalachian Biodiversity with Cider Apples

Preserving Appalachian Biodiversity with Cider Apples Emily Payne | Food Tank A quality cider is the result of a fine-tuned recipe, with each apple variety contributing a certain component to the…

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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.