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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.

Farmer group in Kenya looking at sorghum

Key Messages from Crop Diversity Day 2022

Key Messages from Crop Diversity Day 2022 1. Global crop diversity is a prerequisite for future food and nutrition security, enabling us to adapt agriculture to the climate crisis, improve…

Panel of speakers at Crop Diversity Day.

Keynote Address: Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

Keynote Address: Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations At the Crop Trust's Pledging Conference in Washington, D.C., the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations gave the keynote…

KfW & Crop Trust Sign Agreement to Safeguard Crop Diversity

KfW & Crop Trust Sign Agreement to Safeguard Crop Diversity BONN, GERMANY, 12 October 2017 – Global efforts to protect crop diversity have been boosted by a €50 million loan from the German…

Different types of squash on a pile, Bergisches Land, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation (KIADPAI)

Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Crop Trust

Khoury_cropgeneticerosion_GROW_2021_10_18.pdf

Crop genetic erosion: a review of 100 years of evidence, thoughts on future research, and an outline of steps needed to mitigate, stem, and reverse further losses Colin Khoury San Diego Botanic…

Kioumars_Ghamkhar_-_Unchaining_genetic_diversity.pdf

Unchaining genetic diversity by harnessing omics tools for genebank innovation and adaptive agriculture Kioumars Ghamkhar Director, Margot Forde Genebank, AgResearch Co-chair, Academia Section,…

Kiribati

Kiribati has a population of around 106,000. Kiribati’s economy depends heavily on the export of phosphate rock, but the country’s deposits have been depleted. Commercial seaweed farming has become…

Landmark Partnership Guarantees Long-term Support For Globally Important Collections of Beans and Forages

Landrace Conservation Offers Hope in Race to Collect Crop Diversity

A new global analysis is a big step in assessing the maintained diversity of landraces within 25 major crops in the genebanks worldwide.

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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.