Crop Trust

23 June 2025, Vietnam: Plant Breeders Innovate Against Climate Change  Vietnam’s agriculture is at a crossroads. Extreme weather events, higher temperatures and

18 June 2025, Germany:  “We prefer not to plant. It’s too dry,” says a farmer in Sidi Abdellah El Bouchouari, Tiznit, in

31 May 2025, Kenya: “We’re only looking for ‘wow!’ potatoes,” says Thiago Mendes, scanning rows of tubers in Kenya’s Nakuru highlands. As

26 May 2025, Uganda: When Adriana was a young girl in rural Uganda, she stopped eating local vegetables. They were seen as

21 May 2025, California: In this edition, our Seed Heroes series pays tribute to U.S. scientist Jack Harlan. His plant collection expeditions

10 May 2025, Germany: In a world in which growing food demand is about the only certainty, digital tools are helping genebanks

30 April 2025, Colombia: Genebanks are energy-intensive. Cold rooms or freezers must stay running to keep seeds at the -20°C recommended for

18 April 2025, Philippines: Every year, the Philippines braces for an average of 20 typhoons. And every year, the scientists at the

15 April 2025, Uganda: BOLDER Project Stakeholders Meet to Identify 15 Underutilized Species for Conservation and Use Over 250 farmers, genebank experts,

29 March 2025, Zimbabwe: On 25 February 2025, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault received a landmark deposit. Twenty-one genebanks deposited over 14,000