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Five Ways Crop Diversity Delivered in 2025
At the Crop Trust, we invest in crop diversity. But what does that mean, exactly?
In 2025, it meant securing thousands of seed samples for the future, supporting new climate-resilient crop varieties, helping farmers access...
24 Jun 2026
Svalbard Global Seed Vault Crosses Major Milestone - 1.4 Million Seed Samples Secured
LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY, 17 June 2026 – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its door for the second time this year, adding over 15,000 new seed samples. This marks a major milestone for the Seed Vault. Its collection has now...
17 Jun 2026
CGIAR: Cryo Vault Opens Its Doors to National Partners
The CGIAR has taken a major step forward in the long-term conservation of crops that cannot be stored as seed, as Ecuador becomes the first country to deposit material in the new Cryopreservation Vault at the International Potato...
10 Jun 2026
How Wild Potato Genes Can Help East African Farmers Beat the ‘Chemical Tax’
For many smallholder farmers in the tropical highlands of East Africa, the dream of a bountiful potato harvest is increasingly overshadowed by a ‘chemical tax.’ Disease pressure keeps farmers trapped in a costly cycle – spraying...
5 Jun 2026
Svalbard Global Seed Vault Receives 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been awarded the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, one of Spain’s most prestigious international honors. The award recognizes the Seed Vault’s role in safeguarding...
21 May 2026
Bart Panis: Cryobank Scientist With a Marathon Vision for the Future of Bananas
In this edition of our Seed Heroes series, we recognize Bart Panis for his pioneering work on the conservation of banana diversity and for leading the establishment of the world’s largest cryobank for bananas in Leuven, Belgium.
22 May 2026
Annual Report 2025: Opportunity in Focus
From the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic to farmers’ fields in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the Crop Trust and our partners worked to ensure crop diversity is secure and serves people and food systems. Discover how the Crop Trust and its partners advanced crop diversity conservation and created new opportunities for resilient food systems around the world in 2025.
Ensuring Food and Nutrition Security
The Crop Trust is the only organization in the world that focuses solely on building and supporting a global system of genebanks for the conservation of crop diversity.
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