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Growing our Community of Crop Diversity Supporters “Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated.” Almost 70 years after American educator and writer Anne Roe made this…

Crop Trust '21 Fellowship Awarded Senior English major Shaliz Barzani has been awarded The Steve and Riea Lainoff Crop Trust Fellowship in Honor of Cary Fowler. The fellowship is made possible…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…