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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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Securing Our Food Forever

Safeguarding Crop Diversity For A Secure Future Conserving crop diversity is more urgent than ever in a world facing concurrent challenges of climate change, conflict and food insecurity. …

In this period of reduced overseas development aid and declining grants from governments, it has become necessary and urgent for the Crop Trust to explore new ways to engage a broader group of public…

Securing East Africa’s Cassava

Securing East Africa’s Cassava IITA is eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so it can safely be transported from East Africa to Nigeria. Morag Ferguson is thrilled with the results of a…

Secretariat of the Pacific Community Center for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT)

Crop diversity remains the key to meeting future food needs. Yet these resources are disappearing and diversity in the Pacific has been no exception to this trend. Mission The mission of CePaCT is…

Second International Agrobiodiversity Congress

Second International Agrobiodiversity Congress 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress November 15 – 18, 2021 Agrobiodiversity is the foundation of our lives. Increasing its sustainable use in…

A farmer tends to rice paddies at the Maname experimental farm in Tolima, where different varieties of exotic rice destined for Colombian restaurants are tested under local conditions. Over 90% of rice fields in the country are planted with modern varieties, usually bred with a very mixed ancestry from other regions of the world. Resistance to the destructive Latin American virus hoja blanca, for example, has been found in a variety from Taiwan and a few African lines.

Scientists to Employ Arctic Ice To Protect Diversity of World's Crops

Scientists to Employ Arctic Ice To Protect Diversity of World's Crops SVALBARD, NORWAY (19 June 2006)—On an island near the North Pole, heads of State from five Nordic countries and the Global Crop…

Scientists issue rallying cry for greater global cooperation to safeguard seeds for future food and nutrition security

Scientists issue rallying cry for greater global cooperation to safeguard seeds for future food and nutrition security Berlin, Germany, 15 November 2023: Leading experts have issued a…

Scientific Community Calls To Halt Destruction of Pavlovsk Station

Scientific Community Calls To Halt Destruction of Pavlovsk Station ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (9 September 2010)—Momentum behind a global effort to save Europe’s most important collection of fruits…

Science Seeks Ancient Plants To Save Favourite Foods

Science Seeks Ancient Plants To Save Favourite Foods From a bowl of rice to a cup of coffee, experts say the foods we take for granted could become much scarcer unless we can make them resistant to…

Scientists on a collecting mission for wild relatives of potato, eggplant, rice and sweet potato. Credit: Luis Salazar/ Crop Trust

Science Nigeria: Loss Of Genetic Plant Diversity Setback For Nigeria’s Food Security Drive

Science Nigeria: Loss Of Genetic Plant Diversity Setback For Nigeria’s Food Security Drive Recently, the Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture warned that the country’s crop diversity is under serious…

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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.