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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An Endowment for the Ages

An Endowment for the Ages Crop diversity is under threat. Changes in land use, extreme weather events, shifting pests and diseases, even human conflict and strife, all mean that we cannot take the…

Celebrating the colors and shapes of chilli diversity. (Photos: Shawn Landersz/Crop Trust and Megha Kokli)

Ensuring the Camel of Crops Keeps Giving

The Crop Trust facilitated the update of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of sorghum and its wild relatives.

Genebanks from 15 countries visit IPK

Genebanks from 15 countries visit IPK Crop Trust and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) invited partners from developing countries to a workshop. Benjamin Kilian,…

A Space for Landraces

A Space for Landraces We live in times that, though arguably plenty interesting enough already, seem to be in an unseemly hurry to become ever more so. Farming is not, alas, immune to all the…

2021 Annual Report

DIVERSITY SUPPORTED USD 33 M in grants provided to fund conservation The Crop Trust and its partners conducted a wide variety of program activities in 2021, including the CGIAR…

Strengthening Genebanks in Africa

Seeds for Resilience is a 5-year project supporting collections of key crops identified by partner genebanks in five sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia.

Data and Information: the Backbone of the Global System

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…

Building BOLDly on Success

Launched in September 2021, Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development (BOLD) is a 10-year project, funded by the Government of Norway, that will build on the successes and…

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Food Security and Germplasm Conservation Bring Crop Trust and CATIE Together

Food Security and Germplasm Conservation Bring Crop Trust and CATIE Together Food security and the development of a strategy to conserve germplasm of great importance for Mesoamerican agriculture is…

2023 Annual Report & Financial Statement

Crop Trust’s Annual Report 2023 provides milestones and highlights from our work during 2023.

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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.