The BOLD Potato Project The BOLD potato project aims to increase the potato diversity available to potato breeding programs and farmers by integrating lines derived from crop wild relatives (CWR)…
The BOLD Grasspea Project The BOLD grasspea project will enhance the grasspea diversity available to breeders, researchers, farmers and other users, with the focus on increasing the nutritional…
The BOLD Finger Millet Project The BOLD finger millet project aims at increasing and sustaining production and resilience of finger millet to enhance the food and nutrition security of small-scale…
The BOLD Durum Wheat Project The aim of the BOLD Durum Wheat Project is to increase the genetic diversity of durum wheat available to plant breeders and farmers. This will contribute to improving…
The BOLD Barley Project The aim of the BOLD Barley Project is to generate new genetic diversity in barley and make it available to plant breeders and farmers. This will contribute to enhancing food…
The BOLD Rice Project The BOLD rice project in Vietnam is using participatory plant breeding and evaluation approaches to develop new crop wild relative-derived rice varieties that have the…
The BOLD Alfalfa Project The BOLD alfalfa project uses wild relatives of alfalfa to improve the climate adaptation of the crop in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Activities include identifying,…
What is crop diversity and why does it need to be conserved and used? Crop diversity — both the diversity within crops and diversity of crops — is the foundation of our food and nutrition security.…
New Online Experience: Conserving and Using Crop Diversity This interactive website invites you to explore how the crops we eat are conserved, studied and used to build a more secure food…
