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Biodiversity for Resilience: A Food Secure World Starts With You

Biodiversity for Resilience: A Food Secure World Starts With You Diversity can be found in the produce aisle at your local grocery store. It’s on your dining table, it’s growing in the pot on your…

Biodiversity for Resilience: Chefs, Advocates for Biodiversity

Biodiversity for Resilience: Chefs, Advocates for Biodiversity Chefs have the opportunity to make a difference in our food systems by getting people interested in diverse dishes and how they make…

Biodiversity for Resilience: Farmers, Dedicated Stewards of Diversity

Biodiversity for Resilience: Farmers, Dedicated Stewards of Diversity For millennia, farmers have domesticated, selected and exchanged plants, making them the ultimate stewards of the world’s crop…

Biodiversity for Resilience: Genebanks, Ensuring Resilience

Biodiversity for Resilience: Genebanks, Ensuring Resilience Genebanks, or seed banks, are like active safety deposit boxes for the world’s crop diversity. Much like you store your money in a bank…

Biodiversity for Resilience: We Are Diverse, We Are Resilient

Biodiversity for Resilience: We Are Diverse, We Are Resilient What makes us resilient? What enables us to overcome hardships no matter the crisis? What is our greatest strength? Diversity. In our…

Biodiversity protection “window of opportunity is closing,” warn scientists at COP15

Biodiversity protection “window of opportunity is closing,” warn scientists at COP15 Authorities are trying to adopt a new set of goals to prevent and reverse the loss of nature. At COP15 in…

Rice terraces at different stages of maturity in a Betsileo village. Betsileo communities in the central highlands are especially renowned for their advanced rice farming. Wherever a flat surface exists – or can be built – rice can be planted. The farmers sow a wide assortment of local types at different times, employing irrigation to grow some in the dry season and waiting for the rainy season to plant others. This diversity is all at once a source of efficiency, security, cultural identity, and pride.

BION Herbsttagung

BION Herbsttagung The Crop Trust's Director of Programs Sarada Krishnan is participating in the BION autumn conference on Thursday, October 20, 2022 where she'll give a lecture on the…

Witchweed, a weed and parasite found in finger millet field.

Bioversity International

Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization with a vision that agricultural biodiversity will nourish people and sustain the planet. Mission Bioversity’s mission is to…

Bloomberg: Arctic Vault Stashes More Seeds for Future Food

Bloomberg: Arctic Vault Stashes More Seeds for Future Food As reported by Bloomberg, 23 depositors from 21 countries sent boxes of seeds that contain over 30,000 seed samples for safekeeping at the…

Blueberry Millet Tart

Blueberry Millet Tart We all know blueberries are high in antioxidants but did you know millet is a gluten-free and wheat-free whole grain that is high in iron, protein and rich in B vitamins? It…

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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.