The Crop Trust is a non-profit international organization dedicated to conserving crop diversity and making it available for use globally, forever, for the benefit of everyone.

We work with donors and partners to lead global projects that protect crop diversity, conserve crop wild relatives and develop technology to make this diversity accessible worldwide.

We seek professionals with a passion for global food security and a strong drive to contribute to our mission of conserving crop diversity for future generations.

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Opinion

Landrace Conservation Offers Hope in Race to Collect Crop Diversity

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

9 May 2022

With the harvest in progress outside of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, a threshing team uses flat rocks to knock rice grains from freshly cut plants. Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, holds 2.4 million farms. At harvest time, the rhythm of rice threshing can be heard on most of them. While the country is most famous for exotic products like vanilla and cloves, 85% of Malagasy farmers grow rice.

Opinion

Food Prices Are on the Rise – And the Global South Will Be Hit Hardest

By Stefan Schmitz, published in the Independent

28 Apr 2022

Svalbard Global Seed Vault. (Photo: Riccardo Gangale)

Opinion

A Year of Great Hope

2021 reflections by Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust Executive Director

23 Dec 2021

Opinion

We at the Global Crop Diversity Trust work to make sure that food has a future. So, imagine our excitement when we found that a recent edition of The Economist included a Technology Quarterly—and indeed an accompanying leader— on…...

29 Oct 2021