We are dedicated to conserving and making crop diversity available for use globally, forever and for the benefit of everyone.
The need to conserve crop diversity within a rational, efficient global system has been recognized in various international agreements
The Crop Trust's Dr. Benjamin Kilian in Western Kenya with finger millet pre-breeding partner Dr. Chrispus Oduori of KALRO (left) and farmer Margaret Jubende. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)
17 May 2023
Photo: Luis Salazar for Crop Trust
11 May 2023
25 Apr 2023
Finger millet pre-breeding at Maseno University in western Kenya. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
4 Apr 2023
Moroccan farmer Abdellah Bounagua shows a spike of Nachit, a new variety developed from crop wild relative-derived durum wheat. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
17 Mar 2023
Rice seed at Vietnam National Genebank. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust
14 Mar 2023
Farmers Mary Kwena and Mary Kwena displaying a wild finger millet in their fields in Matungu Sub-County of Kakamega County. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
8 Mar 2023
Seeds samples in Mali packed and ready to be deposited at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in February 2023. Photo: Institut d’Economie Rurale, Mali
24 Feb 2023
Jamal Mabrouki, ICARDA technician. Grasspea breeding at ICARDA's facilities at Marchouch Station, Morocco. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)
21 Feb 2023
Alfalfa breeder Alan Humphries (SARDI) with the woody shrub Medicago arborea, a crop wild relative used to introduce new diversity into the alfalfa genepool, at the Waite Institute, Adelaide, South Australia. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust
20 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023
Researchers with the Chickpea Innovation Lab at one of the UC Davis greenhouse facilities carrying out advanced crossing of F2 populations. Photo: University of California-Davis
10 Feb 2023
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