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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How Wild Potato Genes Can Help East African Farmers Beat the ‘Chemical Tax’

How Wild Potato Genes Can Help East African Farmers Beat the ‘Chemical Tax’ For many smallholder farmers in the tropical highlands of East Africa, the dream of a bountiful potato harvest is…

GROW Webinar: Developing a User-Friendly Gap Analysis Tool to Build More Complete Ex Situ Collections

23 June 2026 - 15.00 - 16.00 CEST

Sweetpotato Leaves à la Singida

Sweetpotato Leaves à la Singida The sun is barely up when I meet Jasmin Salum in her family’s irrigated plot in Mumbivi, a small village just outside Singida in central Tanzania. The air is cool,…

Colin Khoury

Colin Khoury coordinates the Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants, in a dual position between the Crop Trust and the New York Botanical Garden. Colin studied agroecology and plant genetic…

GRIN-Global Community Edition and Genesys

This course introduces two complementary systems that support the management of ex situ data on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA): GRIN-Global Community Edition (GGCE) and…

The Genetic Memory of the Potato: How Andean Diversity Shapes New Varieties for East African Farms

The Genetic Memory of the Potato: How Andean Diversity Shapes New Varieties for East African Farms While there are many ways to prepare them, modern potatoes are bred from a relatively narrow…

GCCS: A Mandate Moving Forward

The Crop Trust made a number of important institutional strides forward in 2022, including: receiving an endowment contribution from a private company; signing of a memorandum of understanding with…

Knowledge for the Next Generation

The Crop Trust continues to work on initiatives to deepen its network of government donors and establish partnerships with the private sector, NGOs and multilateral development institutions, both in…

QMS: Building Capacity for Conservation

In 2022, no fewer than 30 genebanks from 28 countries deposited a total of nearly 85,000 seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

BOLD Results for Crop Diversity

Launched in September 2021, Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) is a 10-year project, that builds on the successes and achievements of the Crop Wild Relatives Project…

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The Crop Diversity Digest

From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.