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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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Coalition to Rescue Indigenous Pacific Island Crops

Coalition to Rescue Indigenous Pacific Island Crops SYDNEY (22 October 2010)—Hoping to save the vulnerable varieties of bananas painted by the artist Paul Gauguin, rare coconuts, and 1,000 other…

Coconut Conservation: Protecting Culture, Food and a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

Coconut Conservation: Protecting Culture, Food and a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) is more than a tree. It’s a lifeline. Nearly 100 million people in tropical…

Coffee

Each delicious mug of morning brew begins with a coffee tree, belonging to the genus Coffea. While there are many species belonging to the genus, only two are commercially…

Collaboration Vital to Conservation of Coffee Genetic Resources

Collaboration Vital to Conservation of Coffee Genetic Resources The state of the global coffee industry was thrown into the public eye this summer as two of the world’s largest coffee exporters…

Coffea plant at the International Coffee Collection at CATIE.

Colombia Chooses Its Opportunity Crops

Colombia Chooses Its Opportunity Crops In the final hours of the two-day workshop, the discussion really heated up. More than 40 stakeholders from all over Colombia had gathered at the event to…

Colombia Steps Up for Crop Diversity: Inside AGROSAVIA’s Work with the Power of Diversity Funding Facility

Colombia Steps Up for Crop Diversity: Inside AGROSAVIA’s Work with the Power of Diversity Funding Facility Potato, cassava, guava, passionfruit and peach palm are as Colombian…

Combatting Climate Change, One Seed at a Time

Combatting Climate Change, One Seed at a Time The largest agro-biodiversity collection in the world just got a little larger. Longyearbyen, Norway -- 18 October 2016: A total of 25 boxes containing…

Combatting Desertification and Drought with Crop Diversity

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science

Communique

Final Communique Summary of the Co-Chairs 14 November 2023, Französischer Dom, Berlin The Global Crop Diversity Summit brought together key stakeholders from the global Plant Genetic Resources…

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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.