Protecting Nutritional Security

Every year, security experts and thought leaders from around the world gather in Munich to discuss the world's security policy challenges. The Crop Trust was invited to the 2025 Munich Security Conference to highlight how crop...

The World Vegetable Center’s genebank was recently renovated and officially inaugurated at a public ceremony in Tainan on Monday.

Originally funded in 2010 by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the facility was established as...

Nobody much likes writing long reports. Or indeed reading them.

But when the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launches the Third Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA),...

Staff count the cost of armed conflict and step up efforts to conserve Sudan’s unique collection of sorghum and other crops.

Almost two years after Sudan’s civil war broke out, the northeast African nation is experiencing one of...

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Partner organizations from across the globe are gathering in Norway this week to deposit seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, with Sudan making a deposit amid the country’s ongoing civil war

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Sofia ran her hand through a bowl of traditional rice seeds from some nearby farms. “Where should I place this?” she asked her fellow members of the Chimukoko Community Seed Bank. The farmers were identifying and sorting popular...

There’s a sweetpotato variety in Papua New Guinea called “Gimane.” But farmers prefer to call it “I don’t care.” Gimane earned this name because it doesn’t care – it grows well with almost no inputs, making it a hassle-free crop....

This edition of our Seed Heroes series focuses on the vital role that Åsmund Asdal plays in conserving the diversity of the world’s food crops as coordinator of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.