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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.

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A BOLD Attempt to Adapt Barley to the Most Remote Regions of Tunisia

… care for the whole family.” Over the last decade, Tunisia has endured a series of severe droughts. In 2023, conditions were so extreme that INRAT lost nearly all of its barley breeding field trials. “In 2024,…

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

Building a Resilient Future With the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS)

… and Soils (VACS) is an initiative launched by the United States Department of State in February 2023 in partnership with the African Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations…

Securing our food, forever

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

Adapting Smallholder Farmers’ Crops to Climate Change Through Crop Diversity in the Pacific

Strengthening a rational, efficient and effective global system of ex situ crop diversity conservation.

Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin Kilian

… complemented with Innovative Finance,” funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. (2019 to 2023). Before that, he coordinated all pre-breeding activities supported by the Crop Trust on 20 crops with…

Crop Trust dares to be BOLDER with expansive initiative in Africa

…Crop Trust dares to be BOLDER with expansive initiative in Africa Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 10 December 2023 — As the world comes together to urgently chart a better course forward for climate action at COP 28 in…

Securing the Foundation of Our Food Supply at -18° Celsius

… the world’s crop diversity, thus securing our future food security. Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 6 June 2023 – Today the Svalbard Global Seed Vault welcomes 40,507 new seed samples from nine genebank depositors,…

Ukraine Adopts Strategy to Save Crop Diversity

… Trust, the European Union Delegation in Ukraine and the European genebank network ECPGR. “In 2023, we helped with duplication of some of the seeds in the Kharkiv genebank and sent them to a place safer…

Risky Business: Safeguarding Crop Diversity in Genebanks

… serves as a crucial safety net in the event of catastrophic loss. Svalbard Deposit October 2023 (Photo: LM Salazar/Crop Trust) However, not all risks can be prevented or mitigated. This…

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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.