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The Crop Trust’s Endowment Fund grew to USD 398 million, delivering a strong 14.3% return and generating USD 51 million in investment gains. Income from projects and other unrestricted…

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.

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

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…

First funded projects launched in Ethiopia and Niger Establishment of the Flagship Secretariat at the Crop Trust in February  Adoption of the initiative’s strategy at the first Members’…

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…

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…

In 2025, Crop Trust advocacy and activities advanced efforts on the three strategic goals outlined in the 2030 Strategic Plan: Food Forever. The Strategic Plan was put in place in 2023 to guide the…

Information systems are central to the effective conservation and use of plant genetic resources, whether at the level of the individual collection, using the likes of GRIN-Global, or at a global…