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Bambara groundnuts. Photo: Sacha de Boer/Oxfam Novib

Celebrating the colors and shapes of chilli diversity. (Photos: Shawn Landersz/Crop Trust and Megha Kokli)

"Just like shoppers in a supermarket, farmers like choice." Rice farmers in Cao Phong District, Hoa Binh, Vietnam. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

Eric Manyasa, a sorghum breeder, at KALRO-Kibos in Western Kenya. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

The Crop Trust's Dr. Benjamin Kilian in Western Kenya with finger millet pre-breeding partner Dr. Chrispus Oduori of KALRO (left) and farmer Margaret Jubende. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)

After a cassava sprout has been stored in a growth chamber with elevated temperatures which help remove viruses technicians excise a clean part of the tissue. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)

Trevor Rowe (SARDI) measuring the plant height of alfalfa at the Waite Institute, Adelaide, South Australia. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

The seeds of the baobab are covered with a whitish-pink, dry, acidic pulp that is high in Vitamin C and makes a nice juice. Agnes Were, a laboratory assistant at ICRAF’s genebank in Nairobi displays an open baobab fruit. The seeds are soaked in water to remove the pulp. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

Staff at the National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC) of the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) check sweet potato growing in the NPGRC field genebank at ZARI’s Mt Makulu Central Research Station, Lusaka. (Photo: Neil Palmer/Crop Trust)

Finger millet in western Kenya. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust