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On May 18th, 2022, the new International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) Morocco genebank is set to officially open in Rabat, Morocco.

This state-of-the-art facility safely stores one of the world's...

I suspect that the well-being of plants is not much on people’s minds these days. Did you know that 2020 was the International Year of Plant Health, for example? We have had other things to worry about, after all. But plants do...

Genebanks and germplasm health units play a key role in ensuring plant health by protecting their seed collections from pests and diseases and by sharing seeds that are free of pests and pathogens with breeders and farmers around...

The Crop Trust is an international organization working to safeguard crop diversity, forever. Our mission is to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity worldwide.

A new global analysis is a big step in assessing the maintained diversity of landraces within 25 major crops in the genebanks worldwide.

The Crop Trust is delighted to congratulate its former Executive Director Cary Fowler on his new role as the United State’s Special Envoy for Global Food Security.

This comes amidst heightened awareness about food insecurity...

The work of Crop Trust scientists was highlighted in this editorial by Michel Edmond Ghanem on behalf of 21 signatories in the journal Nature.