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CIP-Matilde Potato Variety

Introducing CIP-Matilde, a New Disease-resistant Potato On World Food Day 2021, the Crop Trust and the International Potato Center (CIP) announced a new potato variety for farmers…

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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…

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Crop Wild Relatives Project Delivers Beyond Expectation

The 11-year Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) project, funded by the Government of Norway, came to an end in 2021 after achieving or exceeding all of the goals it had set, including releasing several new…

Breakthroughs in Breeding Grasspea and Finger Millet

The project, “Safeguarding crop diversity for food security: Pre-breeding complemented with Innovative Finance,” funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc., made major strides in…

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Strengthening Genebanks in Africa

Seeds for Resilience is a 5-year project supporting collections of key crops identified by partner genebanks in five sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia.

Breathing New Life into the Global Crop Conservation Strategies

Global Crop Conservation Strategies guide global conservation of genetic resources for key crops. Three new strategies were published in 2021 and drafts of four more were completed.

Bean varieties in wooden boxes at CIAT genebank

Data and Information: the Backbone of the Global System

Information systems are central to the effective conservation and use of plant genetic resources, whether at the level of the individual collection, using the likes of GRIN-Global, or at a global…

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Partnerships and Organizational News

The Crop Trust made a number of important strides in its partnerships and outreach in 2021. This included signing a memorandum of understanding with the World Vegetable Center, launching an Emergency…

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CGIAR Genebank Platform

The CGIAR Genebank Platform came to an end in 2021 after a decade of Crop Trust’s coordination of the program.

Shelved containers in ICRISAT genebank

Finance and Investments

The Endowment Fund continued to grow during the year, with contributions received from the United States Agency for International Development, the Government of Germany, the Government of New…

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