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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Securing Crop Diversity

Crop diversity is the foundation of resilient agrifood systems, yet many crops remain under-collected and at risk. This pillar supports national genebanks identify, collect, safeguard, document…

Opportunity Crops

What are Opportunity Crops? Opportunity crops are nutritious and resilient species traditionally grown by smallholder farmers, often in marginal areas. They are naturally adapted to challenging…

Power of Diversity Funding Facility

The Power of Diversity Funding Facility is a multi-donor initiative managed by the Crop Trust, dedicated to conserving, cultivating and promoting the consumption of relatively neglected opportunity…

From Rome to the World: Working Together to Protect Crop Diversity

From Rome to the World: Working Together to Protect Crop Diversity On a spring evening in Rome, leaders interested in global food security gathered for the German Embassy’s Climate Talks to discuss…

2023 Annual Report

CROP DIVERSITY USED CROP DIVERSITY HIGHLIGHTED CROP DIVERSITY FINANCIALLY SECURED New contributions to the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund were received for USD 5.9 million. The Crop…

A chill solution for tomorrow’s sweetpotatoes

A new project is preserving sweetpotato landraces from Madagascar and Zambia, cleaning them of diseases so they can yield better, and putting them back into the hands of farmers.

Laying the foundations for better grasspea and finger millet

In 2022, the “Safeguarding crop diversity for food security: Pre-breeding complemented with Innovative Finance” Project entered its fourth and final year.

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Banking on African heritage

Seeds for Resilience is a five-year project supporting collections of key crops identified by partner genebanks in five sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. In…

BOLD strides into the future

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…

A guiding light for global crop conservation

Global Crop Conservation Strategies guide global conservation of genetic resources for key crops. In 2022, five new strategies and two updated strategies were completed and three others were in the…

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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.