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Crop Trust 2020 Annual Report We are pleased to share the achievements that we and our partners have achieved during the last year in our 2020 Annual Report. Read the Annual Report

More than 30,000 Seed Samples from Seven Genebanks Secured in Svalbard Global Seed Vault A total of 85 boxes with thousands of seed samples will be deposited this week in the Svalbard Global Seed…

Germany Supports the Crop Trust to Safeguard and Use Crop Diversity Globally SEE PRESS RELEASE A Q&A with Crop Trust Executive Director, Stefan Schmitz A new project, funded by the German…

Germinate: Crop Data at Your Fingertips Until all too recently, sharing information on genetic resources was a hugely inefficient process that made collaboration, at times, impossible. The solution…

2020 Annual Report Letter from the Executive Director An excerpt from our recently published 2020 Annual Report by Executive Director Stefan Schmitz No aspect of the Crop Trust’s work in 2020 was…

Crop Trust Signs Landmark Agreement With Kenya’s National Genebank As part of its Seeds for Resilience Project, the Crop Trust has signed the first of five major agreements with national genebanks in…

Honeybees Sweeten the Deal for Kazakhstani Alfalfa Farmers They say you get more flies with honey, but an experiment on alfalfa in Kazakhstan found you also get greater yields with honeybees. The…

Farmers Know Best: Developing Salt-Tolerant Rice in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta Just like everybody needs somebody to love, every new crop variety needs a farmer. Developing better seeds that can…

A Helping Hand to Reboot Seed Conservation in the Philippines Crop diversity is humanity’s lifeline. If we want to ensure our future food security, it must be protected. Genebanks contribute to this…

Saving Hard-to-Conserve Food Crops The Crop Trust and International Plant Treaty Cryopreservation is the key to conserving many crops we rely on for our food and agriculture. While most of the…