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Global System Project

Background When the Crop Trust was first established, staff used different sources of information to prioritize activities. Both the Global Plan of Action on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and…

Hands holding small seeds

Crop Wild Relatives

2011-2021 The Crop Wild Relatives Project (formally titled “Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting, and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives”) brought together institutions,…

Close-up of potato flowers

The CGIAR Genebank Platform

2017-2021 The 11 CGIAR genebanks safeguard a unique global resource of crop and tree diversity and respond to thousands of requests for this diversity every year from users in more than 100…

Shelved containers in ICRISAT genebank

The Templeton Pre-Breeding Project

The Crop Trust – Templeton Project is built on a mutual goal to improve food security for some of the world’s most vulnerable smallholders in the context of a changing climate.

Purple pea flowers

Food Forever Initiative

The Food Forever Initiative was a campaign to support Target 2.5 of the UN SDGs by raising awareness around crop and livestock diversity and its importance to a sustainable food future.

High angle of person pouring water with cucumber to friend's glass above table with vegan food

Crops in Color

The CropsinColor campaign highlights not only the importance of crop diversity for food security and adaptation to climate change, but its beauty – found all around us.

Yellow mais varieties in Zambia

Saving Tea

What is tea genetic diversity? Why is it important to conserve? Find out more through a Q&A with a tea expert, or a deep dive into the Global Conservation Strategy for Tea.

Hand holding fresh tea leaves

Published Global Crop Conservation Strategies

This list includes documents developed/or facilitated by several organizations. The strategies are listed in alphabetical order. Crop Year of publication …

Apple

The more than 7,000 cultivars of apple known today result from a long and complicated history in which multiple wild species were crossed into the fruit’s lineage as it travelled from China to…

Red and yellow apples

Beans

The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) provides enough balanced nutrition to keep a person alive for a long time on that single food alone. It is an important source of nutrition, providing…

Nine piles of bean varieties
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