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Projects

The need to conserve crop diversity within a rational, efficient global system has been recognized in various international agreements, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Crop Trust’s work responds to this urgent call to action.

We fund the world’s most important genebanks from our Crop Diversity Endowment Fund, which is at the heart of our task, but our work does not end there. We also address gaps in the global system for the conservation of crop diversity through projects that closely complement the work funded by the endowment.

Current Projects

The BOLD Project

The BOLD Project

Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development is a groundbreaking 10-year project to combat the climate crisis.

Seeds for Resilience

Seeds for Resilience

Seeds for Resilience is a five-year project to support the national genebanks of Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia

Strategic Development of the Crop Trust

Strategic Development of the Crop Trust

The project is supporting the Crop Trust in its institutional development and strategic repositioning.

Global Crop Conservation Strategies

Global Crop Conservation Strategies

The Crop Trust is working with experts from around the world to develop and update strategies that will guide global efforts for the conservation of key crops.

The Templeton Pre-Breeding Project

The Templeton Pre-Breeding Project

The Crop Trust – Templeton Project is built on a mutual goal to improve food security for some of the world’s most vulnerable smallholders in the context of a changing climate.

Crop Conservation Activities Database

Crop Conservation Activities Database

Key information on projects coordinated by the Crop Trust relating to the conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.

Darwin Initiative-funded Sweetpotato Project

Darwin Initiative-funded Sweetpotato Project

Sweetpotato is a nutritious staple across Africa, but its diversity is under threat. To safeguard it forever, partners are coming together to ​test​ a model that could work not only for sweetpotato but ​also ​for other crops, which cannot be conserved as seeds.

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