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A Coldroom for Every Crop Even on World Food Day, when the world is abuzz with talk about the future of humanity and the planet, it’s easy to take seeds for granted. But without seeds, we wouldn’t…

Potato Research in Peru (video) In Peru, researchers are breeding drought-resistant potato varieties. They use genes from wild potato species so that cultivated potatoes can cope better with…

Obituary: M.S. Swaminathan (1925-2023) M.S. Swaminathan, the father of the Green Revolution in Asia and a builder of global institutions tasked with protecting the world’s agricultural biodiversity,…

The Seeds for Resilience Project

Bean Flour Banana Cake On Sustainable Gastronomy Day, the Crop Trust linked up with its partners from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to cook up a menu of dishes based on beans and…

Bean and Cassava Flour Muffins On Sustainable Gastronomy Day, the Crop Trust linked up with its partners from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to cook up a menu of dishes based on…

An Initiative to Save Cryopreserved Crop Collections, Forever Many of the foods we cherish the most – bananas and potatoes, for example – don’t reproduce through seeds. They are propagated through…

Reaping What we Sow: The role of seed banks in a rapidly changing climate In a call for urgent action to better prepare the world to fight the effects of a rapidly changing climate, this session…

Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development - BOLD Project Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development, or BOLD for short, is a 10-year project launched in 2021. The…