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.

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Powering Conservation: Genebanks and the Shift to Renewable Energy

Pre-breeding Explained: A Project by Minerva University Students

Pre-breeding Explained: A Project by Minerva University Students The Crop Trust partnered with Minerva University through its Civic Projects initiative, bringing together the creative energies of…

Pre-Breeding For Dummies With Anna Backhaus

Pre-Breeding For Dummies With Anna Backhaus It's April. Night is falling in Agadir, a coastal Moroccan city bordering the southern Atlantic coast, and Anna is talking about her pre-breeding work and…

Pre-breeding Project Management

This module explains why it is necessary to plan ahead in a pre-breeding programme. It covers the range of issues that need to be considered before embarking on a pre-breeding programme, stressing…

Pre-Breeding Work With Grasspea and Finger Millet Gets a Boost

Pre-Breeding Work With Grasspea and Finger Millet Gets a Boost Two food crops prized for their nutritional value and ability to survive temperature extremes, drought and poor soil are now receiving…

Grasspea at ICARDA’s facilities at Marchouch Station, Morocco. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

Pre-breeding: Creating and Managing Variation

This course explains why parental selection is important and how it can be done effectively based on various types and sources of data and information. The issues associated with transferring traits…

Pre-breeding: Distributing, Use and Regulatory Issues

This module addresses issues of how pre-breeding products are used, either in full-scale breeding programmes or directly by society, industry etc. Some background information on how pre-breeding…

Preserving Appalachian Biodiversity with Cider Apples

Preserving Appalachian Biodiversity with Cider Apples Emily Payne | Food Tank A quality cider is the result of a fine-tuned recipe, with each apple variety contributing a certain component to the…

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Press Statement on the Seed Vault

Press Statement on the Seed Vault Improvements of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault 19 May 2017 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the world's backup for crop collections. It currently safeguards more…

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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.