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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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Securing East Africa’s Cassava
IITA is eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so it can safely be transported from East Africa to Nigeria.
Morag Ferguson is thrilled with the results of a recent genotyping study. It seems that the cassava landraces she has...
10 Jul 2018
It's Complicated
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
I was really sad to hear that Hans Rosling had died a few days ago. I am instantly mesmerized no matter how often I watch him gesticulating enthusiastically in front of a fancy data...
16 Feb 2017
16 Feb 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
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
Just Warming Up
Cassava isn't afraid of a changing climate
For poor farmers in the tropics, there are few upsides to climate change. Cassava, however, is set to take off under higher temperatures – if pests and diseases don't drag it down.
Cass...
27 Aug 2013
27 Aug 2013