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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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Urgent Action Needed as Farmer Varieties Disappear from Use

Urgent Action Needed as Farmer Varieties Disappear from Use A team of genebank specialists recently reviewed national crop genebanks in Uganda and Tanzania as part of the Biodiversity for…

BOLD funding for GridScore and Germinate

BOLD funding for GridScore and Germinate The Crop Trust's BOLD project has awarded the James Hutton Institute with funding to further develop its innovative software to support global food security…

Sarada Krishnan

Sarada Krishnan is responsible for providing oversight on the implementation of strategic projects and programs designed to support the Crop Trust mandate of securing the world’s crop diversity. She…

Devex Dish @ SXSW

Join us on Monday, March 13, 2023 on the heels of the official SXSW food program for an afternoon of dialogues to reimagine how we grow, produce, move and distribute food in a nutritious, equitable…

Farmers in Mali Go Wild for Sorghum

Farmers in Mali Go Wild for Sorghum Moïse Mounkoro held three cards in his hand – one red, one yellow and one white. He felt like he was the football umpire in his local village of Sokoro in east…

What is Being Saved in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?

GLF Live with Åsmund Asdal

Jabal Durum Wheat Variety

After years of hard work, a new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat developed by plant breeders and genebank staff at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas…

Crop Conservation Strategies

Thanks to support from the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the Crop Trust and its partners have been working to update five existing global crop conservation strategies and…

Kenyan Farmers Welcome “Exotic” Sorghum

Kenyan Farmers Welcome “Exotic” Sorghum ICSWC 14RS 00020-3-47-1:201704 may be a mouthful, but to Kenyan farmers it could spell food security and better livelihood. The alphanumeric mumbo jumbo –…

Farmer group in Kenya looking at sorghum

Cracking the Problem of Tree Seeds

Cracking the Problem of Tree Seeds World Agroforestry’s (ICRAF) genebank hosts the world’s largest holdings of agroforestry tree genetic resources but encounters several unique challenges in getting…

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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.