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Durum Wheat Pre-Breeding for Food Security Durum wheat is the tenth most important food crop in the world. It is often referred to as the “Biblical crop”. Its ancient domestication was linked to…

The Women Finger Millet Advocates of Western Kenya Finger millet hardly needs an introduction in Western Kenya. The crop is native to the highlands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda and has been…

Selection by Stone Abdellah Bounagua clutched the stone tightly in his weathered hands. With it, he could cast one vote. The durum wheat farmer from Marchouch in northern Morocco wanted to make sure…

GROW Webinar: What It Takes To Build an Eco-efficient Genebank for the 21st Century Presented by: Peter Wenzl, Leader, Genetic Resource Program, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Peter…

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…

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…

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,…

The Last Crop Before the Desert “I’ve never seen barley looking this great before!” El Kbir Safraoui couldn’t hold back his excitement about the crop growing in his fields. And he had seen a lot of…

Potatoes for a Changing Climate Climate change is reducing potato yields in some important production areas due to more drought, heat, and diseases like late blight and bacterial wilt. Our partners…

Iraq and Uruguay Deposit Crop Seeds at Arctic Doomsday Vault At the last opening of the year, tightly packed seed packets from Iraq and Uruguay join more than 45,000 seed samples of crops from…