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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The Bean That Could Withstand Hurricanes

The Bean That Could Withstand Hurricanes Daniel Debouck doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he says he saw one once... or rather a ghost species. Debouck, the former head of the genebank at…

The Bermuda bean has evolved a root system that makes it more resistant to tropical storms. Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT

The Biodiversity Gift

The Biodiversity Gift Wambui Mbichi, host of the Farm to Table KE podcast, recently spoke to the Crop Trust's Nora Castañeda. Nora spoke about biodiversity and its contribution to food and…

The Biodiversity Plan

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (International Treaty) is a pivotal global agreement dedicated to conserving and sustainably using PGRFA. It empowers…

The Breeding Advantage

The Breeding Advantage Tapping into genetic diversity for food security in a 4 degrees warmer world Lili Szilagyi, CCAFS and Cierra Martin, Crop Trust While efforts are underway to mitigate…

CIP’s Genebank staff visually inspect cultures of the global, in trust potato in vitro collection following standard indicators for verifying viability.

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…

The Chef Keeping Appalachian Food for Appalachians

The Chef Keeping Appalachian Food for Appalachians Emily Payne | Food Tank “Comfort food is for cowards, that ain’t what we do here,” Chef Marion Ohlinger tells Food Tank. A 12th-generation West…

The Climate Crisis and What Crop Diversity Has to Do With It

The climate crisis is all around us. Unprecedented heatwaves. Rivers that “ought” to flood once a century now burst their banks every couple of years.

The Constitution of the Crop Trust

The Cows Come Home

The Cows Come Home Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs Cows get a lot of bad press these days. They are blamed for climate change and deforestation and even unhealthy diets, as if it’s…

The Cows Come Home

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

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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.