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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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Wired: Genebank Saved From Syrian Civil War

Wired: Genebank Saved From Syrian Civil War Lizzie Wade reports in Wired Magazine: when civil war erupted in Syria, Ahmed Amri, the genebank manager at the International Center…

THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN DRY AREAS HAS A GENEBANK THAT PROTECTS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ANCIENT SEEDS, INCLUDING MANY VARIETIES OF WHEAT AND DURUM. ICARDA

Wild Sorghum Offers Toolbox for Climate-Proofing Future Crops

Wild Sorghum Offers Toolbox for Climate-Proofing Future Crops Harnessing useful traits found in the weedy distant cousins (“wild relatives”) of domesticated crops to develop more climate-resilient…

Wild Relatives: Not Just in Your Family

Wild Relatives: Not Just in Your Family Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Most of us have some wild relatives in our families. I can think of some in my own. It’s the same with crops – they too have their…

Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops

Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food. Bonn,…

INIA- Capacity Building Course in Chile.

Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops

Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food Bonn,…

Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet

Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet The world’s farmers urgently need new crop varieties that are resilient to such results of climate change as droughts and outbreaks of new…

Wild eggplant. Photo: Luis Salazar/Crop Trust

Wild Carrot and Stick

Wild Carrot and Stick Under the Crop Wild Relatives Project, researchers from Bangladesh, Pakistan and the US have teamed up to develop carrots adapted to a hotter, drier and overall changing…

Cultivated carrots and wild relative carrots freshly pulled from the ground.

Wild Bananas from Papua New Guinea Boost Food Security for All

Wild Bananas from Papua New Guinea Boost Food Security for All Bananas come in a huge array of different types, some say perhaps a thousand or more distinct cultivated varieties, but there’s only one…

Wild About Bananas

Wild About Bananas Hunting for Drought Tolerance in Papua New Guinea Bananas were first domesticated in Southeast Asia, sometime between 5,000 and 8,000 BCE. They have since spread widely around…

Why We Need Crop Diversity

Crop diversity is essential for life on Earth. It underpins nearly everything we eat and drink. But it’s rapidly disappearing.

Bean varieties in wooden boxes at CIAT genebank

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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.