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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.
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From 100 to Four: Favorites in Focus for BOLDER Opportunity Crops
BOLDER Project Stakeholders Meet to Identify 15 Underutilized Species for Conservation and Use
Over 250 farmers, genebank experts, government representatives, and private-sector partners gathered in Benin, Ghana, Tanzania and...
14 Apr 2025
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400-Year-Old Bolivian Newcomer Ships Seeds to Svalbard
A 400-year-old university in Bolivia is set to become the latest depositor to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, thanks to support from the Government of Norway, channeled through the Crop Trust.
Founded in 1624, the Universidad...
21 Oct 2024
Evangelina Villegas: The First Woman to Receive the World Food Prize
In this installment of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate the life of Mexican scientist Evangelina Villegas, who co-developed a new variety of protein-building maize that improved diets for millions of malnourished people around...
19 Jun 2024
Crop Diversity: A Tasty Way for Keeping Our Options Open
On 19 September, scientists, policymakers and other crop diversity enthusiasts, flocked to Mindspace in Williamsburg, one of Brooklyn’s foodiest neighborhoods, to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time—how to...
22 Sep 2023
Using Crop Diversity To Fight Hidden Hunger
Taking stock on World Hunger Day, more than 820 million people around the world do not have enough to eat. The vast majority of these people live in developing countries. According to the Hunger Project, half of the world’s hungry...
27 May 2020
27 May 2020
Vitamin A-Biofortified Maize: Exploiting Native Genetic Variation for Nutrient Enrichment
Science Brief: Biofortification | No.2
Vitamin A is important in immune function. Approximately one third of children under the age of five are at risk for Vitamin A deficiency (WHO 2009). This is the leading cause of preventable...
19 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018
Zinc-Biofortified Wheat: Harnessing Genetic Diversity for Improved Nutritional Quality
SCIENCE BRIEF: BIOFORTIFICATION | NO.1
As one of the world’s major staple food crops, wheat is consumed by 35% of the human population, contributing almost 20% of dietary energy and protein to the diets of developing countries....
29 May 2017
29 May 2017
Q&A with Toby Smith: Four Questions and Four Images
Luis Salazar | Communications Manager
Photographer Toby Smith recently visited southern Africa for the Crop Trust’s #CropsInColor campaign. From the central highlands of Madagascar to the swamps of northern Zambia, Toby...
8 Jul 2016
8 Jul 2016
Pledging Conference Summary
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
The Pledging Conference has taken us one step closer to our final goal: assuring the world safeguards and has access to the crop diversity we need to feed ourselves today, and hopefully feed our progeny...
19 May 2016
19 May 2016
Economic Benefits of Crop Diversity
Crop diversity is the raw material for the development of new and improved varieties, which provide a range of important benefits to farmers and consumers.
Researchers have been assembling and managing ex situ collections of crop...
23 Feb 2016
23 Feb 2016
Celebrating the Building Blocks of Life
Crop diversity in focus: a global photography campaign was launched today celebrating the beauty and value of crop diversity around the world.
The campaign, #CropsInColor, will highlight the diversity of food crops and the role...
8 Dec 2015
8 Dec 2015