The Crop Trust
The Crop Trust is an international organization working to safeguard crop diversity, forever.
Our Mission
The mission of the Crop Trust is to ensure the conservation and availability of plant diversity essential for food and agriculture, forever.
What we do
The Crop Trust is funding the world’s most important genebanks, but our work does not end there.
What we do
The Global Seed Vault
Deep inside a mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, lies a fail-safe, last chance backup facility for the world’s crop diversity.
What we do
The Interactive Map
Learn more about the world’s genebanks and crop diversity preservation.
The Crop Trust in numbers
Value of Endowment Fund$ 170 M
Varieties in the Seed Vault864,309
varieties rescued79,725
Countries the Crop Trust has worked with to conserve crop diversity+100
Crop varieties conserved through Crop Trust's core work726,711
Varieties in global portal2,802,770
CWR to be collected & conserved243
Collections supported12
Take Action
The Crop Trust is raising an endowment to fund a global system for the conservation of crop diversity. Help us to secure our food, our agriculture, forever.
Partners
Australia – Brazil – Canada – Colombia – Egypt – Ethiopia – Germany – India – Ireland – Italy – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Slovak Republic – Spain – Sweden – Switzerland – United Kingdom – United States
