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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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A Wild Way to Boost Wheat Yields

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…

A field technician harvests wheat at CIMMYT's El Batan experimental station

A Window of Opportunity for a Sustainable Future

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…

CHINA - OCTOBER 20: Farmers harvest rice from their terraces to make a meager living. (Photo by Jim Richardson/National Geographic/Getty Images)

A Window of Opportunity for a Sustainable Future

Stefan Schmitz | Executive Director

A Worthy Bean

A Worthy Bean Daniel Debouck, a Belgian researcher who until his retirement a few months ago ran the CIAT genebank, received the Order of Leopold a couple of weeks back. That’s his country’s highest…

A Year Like No Other

A Year Like No Other 2020 reflections by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director

For everyone in the world, 2020 has been a…

A Year Like No Other

2020 Reflections by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director

A Year of Great Hope

2021 reflections by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director

Svalbard Global Seed Vault. (Photo: Riccardo Gangale)

A ‘Revolutionary’ Way to Feed the World That’s Very Old

A ‘Revolutionary’ Way to Feed the World That’s Very Old As the State Department’s global envoy for food security, Cary Fowler is working to shift U.S. foreign policy towards promoting…

A Global Rescue: Safeguarding the Worlds Crop Wild Relatives

A Global Rescue: Safeguarding the Worlds Crop Wild Relatives A S A F E G U A R D I N G T H E W O R L D ’ S C R O P W I L D R E L AT I V E S Introducing the Wild 4 Collecting at a Glance 6 A…

ABC News Australia: Interview with Dr. Stefan Schmitz

ABC News Australia: Interview with Dr. Stefan Schmitz In an interview with ABC in Australia, Dr. Stefan Schmitz of the Crop Trust sat down with Kath Sullivan to discuss how the Crop Trust continues…

Jute mallow leaves. Photo: Neil Palmer/Crop Trust

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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.