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A chill solution for tomorrow’s sweetpotatoes

A new project is preserving sweetpotato landraces from Madagascar and Zambia, cleaning them of diseases so they can yield better, and putting them back into the hands of farmers.

A Changing world - Sustainable and Resilient Dryland Food Systems

A Changing world - Sustainable and Resilient Dryland Food Systems The Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) are…

A Change in Seasons

A Change in Seasons Confronting the message of drought in a shifting maize belt Farming in Southern Africa takes good crops, ingenuity, and rain. But can it work with two out of three? View the…

A Cathedral for Crop Diversity

A Cathedral for Crop Diversity The world’s most cutting-edge genebank opened its doors on Tuesday in a high-profile inauguration ceremony in Palmira, Colombia. Part of the Alliance of Bioversity…

A Carrot Revolution Takes Root in Bangladesh

A Carrot Revolution Takes Root in Bangladesh “Everybody in Bangladesh loves carrots: all social classes, all ages, all religions, all casts,” says M.A. Rahim, a professor at the Bangladesh…

A Busy Month North and South

A Busy Month North and South Marie Haga | Marie's Corner The 17th meeting of the Executive Board is taking place right now in Lima, Peru where we will discuss how we envisage the complete global…

A BOLD Future for Alfalfa: More with Less Water

A BOLD Future for Alfalfa: More with Less Water Nazarov Arken doesn’t hesitate when asked about the problems facing alfalfa growers like himself. “There’s our problem,” said the farmer from Yenbek…

A Bandwagon in the Mainstream

A Bandwagon in the Mainstream Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs Mainstreaming has been at full flood of late. The 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) of the Convention on…

A Bandwagon in the Mainstream

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

60,000 Seed Samples Safeguarded in Svalbard

Record Deposits in 2024 Safeguard Global Crop Diversity The Seed Vault operates as a partnership among the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen)…

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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.