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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The Trees That Make Their Own Climate

The Trees That Make Their Own Climate Sosthene Ahongeze, 52, always knew the time for planting and harvesting, and planned accordingly. Having spent many decades as a smallholder farmer, the…

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.

The Sweetpotato Project

Sweetpotato is a nutritious staple across Africa, but its diversity is under threat. To safeguard it forever, partners are coming together to test a model that could work not only for sweetpotato…

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Twenty-two genebanks, including two new ones, added nearly 51,000 seed samples to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2021.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

In 2022, no fewer than 30 genebanks from 28 countries deposited a total of nearly 85,000 seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

The Summer Edition 2016

The Summer Edition 2016 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner We have decided to collect our main activities during the months of June and July and present you with a summer Newsletter edition. I hope you…

The Squashes of Autumn, From Domestication to Dessert

The Squashes of Autumn, From Domestication to Dessert Words by Paul Cox for #CropsInColor Photos by Luis Salazar, Crop Trust In a field at dawn, Petra Page-Mann is picking squash. Although…

The Situation in September

The Situation in September Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Potatoes From Peru Two weeks ago a delegation of farmers from the Potato Park deposited potato seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.…

The Seeds That Feed Us And the Future They Hold

The Seeds That Feed Us And the Future They Hold World Environment Day is a powerful reminder that conserving biodiversity is essential not just for the health of our planet, but also for something…

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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.