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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 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: 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: 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…

Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.

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Are Seeds Alive? But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids Are seeds alive? What are they made of? Here in Vermont it's planting time, and we've been getting a lot of questions about seeds from kids…

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…

The Future of Food is Wild: The Story Behind The CIP-Matilde Potato Variety Climate change is making it harder for farmers to grow enough food to feed their families. A new potato variety called…

October 2015 in Photos October has proven to be the busiest month of 2015 for us all at the Crop Trust. We have organized events and activities all over the world – from welcoming forage specialists…