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Last week, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) deposited seeds of traditional landraces of durum wheat, wild lentil and other crops on the frozen shelves in the depths of the Svalbard...

Farmers have selected, exchanged and conserved crop diversity for millennia, and continue to do so, because they know that their food security and livelihoods depend on it. Genebanks play an important supporting role to the...

In light of the second opening of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2023 and the World Vegetable Center’s deposit, which marks its 50th anniversary, we sat down to chat with Maarten van Zonneveld, genebank manager of the world’s...

Today, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault welcomes 40,507 new seed samples from nine genebank depositors, including collections from Latvia, Morocco, Taiwan, USA, the Netherlands, Israel, Poland, Zambia, and Italy. The celebration of...

Visitors can now learn all about the Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) Project in a recently launched website. The Crop Trust developed the new BOLD website to provide in-depth information and...

The Crop Trust facilitated the update of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of Vigna and its wild relatives to help ensure food and nutrition security.

Have you ever eaten koki, Hoppin' John, chè đậu trắng, lǜdòu...

Crop diversity is under threat. Changes in land use, extreme weather events, shifting pests and diseases, even human conflict and strife, all mean that we cannot take the future existence of this diversity for granted.

But what...

We live in times that, though arguably plenty interesting enough already, seem to be in an unseemly hurry to become ever more so. Farming is not, alas, immune to all the excitement. I suppose that should not be surprising. We come...

The Crop Trust facilitated the update of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of sorghum and its wild relatives.

The “camel of crops” is a true physiological marvel. It’s one of our toughest cereals and can survive in...

Crop Trust and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) invited partners from developing countries to a workshop. Benjamin Kilian, coordinator of the BOLD project and a former IPK staff member, explains...

When it comes to sustainability, the livestock sector has a bad reputation. One way to reduce its environmental impact is to breed better forages: the grasses and other plants that are eaten by farm animals. The genetic resources...