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.

Resources

Explore our library of key documents and publications — including reports, policies, factsheets, infographics, and more — that support and inform the work of the Crop Trust

Resources

Supercharging the Next Generation of Climate-Smart Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa

EUR 20 million project to boost genebanks’ efforts to conserve and share samples of key staple crops will drive climate resilient and diversified food production.

Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are facing the combined challenges...

27 Apr 2020

Different types of squash on a pile, Bergisches Land, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Resources

KfW & Crop Trust Sign Agreement to Safeguard Crop Diversity

BONN, GERMANY, 12 October 2017 – Global efforts to protect crop diversity have been boosted by a €50 million loan from the German Development Bank (KfW) to the Global Crop Diversity Trust’s endowment fund, which was created to...

12 Oct 2017