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What are genebanks? They are places where seeds, and other living material, of thousands of different varieties of the world’s crop plants are kept safe. Their mission? To serve up, like a great chef, whatever the world's appetite for agricultural innovation demands.

Learn about Crop Trust's work, impact and results in our 2022 Annual Report and Financial Statement.

This baseline questionnaire was prepared to help assess a genebank's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

The climate crisis is all around us. Unprecedented heatwaves. Rivers that “ought” to flood once a century now burst their banks every couple of years.

Genebanks store genes. Not literally, although there are some specialized genebanks that do manage genes – the actual bits of DNA that give living things their distinct characteristics.

Crop diversity is under threat. Changes in land use, extreme weather...

This Policy lays down the rules and processes relating to the processing of personal data of natural persons by Crop Trust.

Learn about Crop Trust's work, impact and results in our 2021 Annual Report and Financial Statement.

Learn about Crop Trust's work, impact and results in our 2020 Annual Report and Financial Statement.

In 2022, the Crop Trust refreshed its brand with an updated color palette and a new logo.

20,443 seed samples from 10 genebanks to be deposited Largest deposit being made by ICARDA genebank, which withdrew seeds in 2015 during the Syrian civil war More than 1.1 million seed samples of nearly 6,000 plant species...

In this deposit, 14,011 seed samples are being added from 12 genebanks from around the world. Latvia and Serbia are depositing seeds for the first time. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) remains the...

BONN, Germany (2 September, 2021) -- The Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) and the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) strengthened their partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conserve and make...